Elliott Carter

Composer's note:Fascination with Italian music, literature, and visual arts has grown ever since my mother took me to Rome in around 1924. This song-cycle is a small gesture of gratitude to Italian cu...

Inspired by 1930s harpist Carlos Salzedo, a member of the small group of modernists who surrounded Varese and Ives. Salzedo's unusual developments in harp technique are explored throughout Mosaic, a w...

90 + für Klavier ist auf neunzig kurzen, akzentuierten Noten aufgebaut, die in einem langsamen gleichmässigen Takt gespielt werden. Im Rahmen dieser Noten verändert sich der Charakter des Stücks laufe...

These 'Two Diversions' for piano deal with a growing contrast between simultaneous musical ideas. The first 'Diversion' presents a line of paired notes, musical intervals, that maintain a single speed...

'Retrouvailles' for piano was written to celebrate the 75th birthday of my friend, Pierre Boulez, Mach 26, 2000. The score retruns to the mottoBb, (o), U (=t), L (=a), E, (z)used in my 'Esprit Rude/Es...

The Pocahontas Ballet Suite is one of Carter's early works, and reflects the neo-classical influences of studies with Walter Piston and Gustav Holst at Harvard (1926-32) and with Stravinskian disciple...

For SATB Choir A Cappella.

Three settings of titles from The Collected Poems of Robert Frost, composed by Carter in 1942. Titles include: Dust of Snow / The Rose Family / The Line-Gang. Also available in a version orchestrated...

Composed for the Harvard Glee Club in 1936, this work is for TB Chorus (Male Voices) and Piano Duet.

Night Fantasies is a piano piece of continuously changing moods, suggesting the fleeting thoughts and feelings that pass through the mind during a period of wakefulness at night. The quiet, nocturnal...