• Year of composition: 2017
  • Work category: Other solo instruments solo
  • First performed: 26 August, 2017 at the Raudondvaris Arts Incubator in Kaunas, Lithuania. Vytenis Danielius
  • Duration: 5 min

Instrumentation

accordion

Examples of printed editions

accoAkademija, Vilnius 2017

Description of work

One-movement work


Work comment

Back in 2007, I was in Cortona, Italy for a couple of weeks, where I stayed at an apartment owned by the Swedish Society of Composers. My intention was to write lots of music during my visit, but I ended up not getting much done (too many culinary distractions). However, I did write down a few chords that I liked, but didn't know what to do with. Ten years later, I wanted to finally use these chords for something, so I decided to let them serve as the basis for a solo accordion piece. The sound of the accordion turned out to be an excellent fit for my chords.