Periferia

The first thing that appears in a Sonatas' volume is the thematic index, which reproduces the first bars of all of them. In my Sonata I have tried to reproduce an accumulative scheme of some imaginary...

According to the distinguished musicologist Juan Bautista Varela, the Galician 'Treboada' is a musical term out of the songbook, as its sense is merely musical. From a lexicographical point of view it...

Collection of studies for piano, each one of them makes the most of a composing idea. Each study can be interpreted in an 'open' way, once it has been played traditionally. The performer can introduce...

'Pichintunes para Piano' is a series of short musical pieces. Its main goal is to initiate young people in dodecaphonic serial music. The title of this work comes from the mapuche word 'pichi', which...

This four-piece group can be considered as a study of style. Somehow, one wonders the capacity to assimilate some musical languages that that appeared at the beginning of the 20th century in a very pe...

Three brief and simple didactic pieces for piano addressed to children and teenagers. These pieces affront typical technical aspects of the first years of study of the instrument, they deepen in the i...

Marcel Olm was born in Mataró (Barcelona) on February 12, 1932. He studied piano with María Canela at the Liceu Conservatory of Barcelona, as well as harmony and composition with Cristobal Taltavull (...

From the composer: 'This work was inspired by a set of photographs by my dear friend Breno Menini. One of the photographs captured my attention by the intensity of the feeling of loneliness and inexor...

'As Moscas' ('The Flies') is a very short piece (approximately 1 minute in length) with a strong effect for the listeners, a joke with the rhythm, bar changes and dissonances. Very fun, it sounds like...