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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ม.ค. 2025
- Sonata 1.X.1905 by Léos Janacek: the miraculous work.
A few words about this rewriting and extension project by the author.
The incredible story of a Sonata...
unfinished, because it was partly burned and thrown into the river by its author, Léos Janacek.
partially revived (thanks to a determined woman pianist who had careffuly and secretly copied the first two movements.
and finally completed by Laurent Pigeolet, belgian pianist and composer, who undertook, more than a hundred years later, to compose a suite and an ending after having immersed himself body and soul in "the ghost" of 1.X.1905, Janacek's mysterious and unique piano sonata.
The project in itself goes beyond the simple desire to reconstitute a vanished movement. While respecting the spirit and the aesthetics of Janacek, I wanted to give a second life to the Sonata « 1.X.1905 » by going further than a work of historical and archaeological reconstruction. Even if from a certain point of view, the two rediscovered movements sufficed in themselves (depending above all on the intention that one puts into interpreting them), I founded that this work in two movements was unbalanced. In a compositional, analytical, and historical view of the sonata over the centuries, reinventing a funeral march afterwards did not seem to be enough to complete it and that Janacek almost certainly had a more ambitious project in mind. Perhaps the weight of the sonata tradition with the stakes being so high plus his other commitments (in the midst of a very dark personal period) led Janacek to abandon his initial project.
Surprisingly, unlike many other classical works, it seems that no one even attempted to compose the missing funeral march. It was therefore a huge and exciting challenge as well as a great honor for a today's composer to undoubtedly be the first to offer a continuation and an amplification beyond these two movements.
The scores are available on Universal Editions website.
