Fred Lerdahl

The Music and Writings of Composer Fred Lerdahl

Program note for Piano Fantasy 

 

The Piano Fantasy (1964) was composed under the spell of my first summer at Tanglewood, where post-war modernism then held sway. The piece features atonal hexachordal construction, disjunct textures, and inside-the-piano effects. I gave its premiere performance at my senior recital in 1965 at the Lawrence University Conservatory of Music. 

Fred Lerdahl

 

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