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| Passacaglia | |
|---|---|
| by Leopold Godowsky | |
&sq=Envato&lang=en&file=File:Ci%C4%85gli%C5%84ski_Portret_Leopolda_Godowskiego_1911.jpg) Portrait of the composer at the piano by Polish painter Jan Ciągliński (1911) | |
| Key | B minor |
| Occasion | One-hundredth anniversary of Franz Schubert's death |
| Based on | Schubert's Unfinished Symphony |
Passacaglia is a solo piano composition by the composer Leopold Godowsky. It was completed in New York, on October 21, 1927. The composition commemorates the one hundredth anniversary of the death of Franz Schubert.[1] Typical of Godowsky's composition style, the piece contains dense contrapuntal, polyphonic, and chromatic writing.
- ^ Godowsky, Leopold. Passacaglia for the Pianoforte (PDF). New York: Carl Fischer. p. 1.