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Fartein Valen - Prelude and Fugue, Op. 28

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Prelude and Fugue is among Valen’s many contrapuntally sophisticated works. Both pieces harmonically resemble Schoenberg (the resemblance is superficial; Valen is generally regarded to have developed his own style of atonal polyphony independently of but certainly inspired by Schoenberg) and structurally resemble Bach.

Valen was born in Norway to a missionary family. Throughout his life, he would maintain his piety. He graduated with an organ-playing degree from the Oslo Conservatory and moved on to Berlin to study composition under Max Bruch. Once Valen returned to Oslo, he gained employment as a staff member of the University of Oslo. Initially, in the 1910s and 1920s, his dissonant contrapuntal works (including over 25,000 unofficial etudes) did not gain favor with conservatory critics. His compositions gained much of its current fame and recognition only a few years before his death.


Date: 1937
Catalogue: Op. 28
Dedicatee: Ole Mørk Sandvik
Order:
Prelude: 0:08
Fugue: 2:25


Performers: Robert Riefling on piano

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