About the creation

The piece that has started as an exercise in composition developed into a full cycle of seven miniatures for piano. Every miniature is dedicated to a canonical composer and flirts with his unique style. The piece is composed in a twelve-tone technique, and uses a single twelve-tone row from the beginning to end.

Stylistically, every miniature speaks a different genre which is typical for the composer that it is named after, but the twelve-tone “DNA” properties unifies them into one coherent piece. I like to think about this composition as an abstraction of well-known ideas. The music expresses familiar aesthetics - canonical aesthetics through a radical “mismatching” grammar.

This special encounter with the beloved old ideas dressed in the twelve-tone disguise, reveals some of its hidden properties, it is funny, disgusting, beautiful, lively, and mostly challenge us with fascinating morphological questions about the true nature of the motif, the gesture, the phrase, the sentence, the part, the form and the cycle.