Music for Piano 4-19



Category: Musical composition
Dated: New York City, May 1953
Instrumentation: Any number of pianos
Duration: indeterminate
Premiere and performer(s): May 18, 1956 at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana
Dedicated to: Eta Harich-Schneider
Choreography: Suite for Five (original title: Suite for five in space and time, shortened after its first performance), choreographed by Merce Cunningham
Published: Edition Peters 6732 © 1960 by Henmar Press
Manuscript: Score (holograph,sidned, in ink - 16 p.); Realisation (holograph, signed, in pencil - 6 p.), both in New York Public Library.


Tempo and dynamics are left to the performer. Tone production was determined using chance operations, the notes themselves by paper imperfections. "The 16 pages may be performed as seperate pieces or continuously as one piece or ...." (From introductory notes). The pieces may be performed in combination, or together with other pieces from Music for piano 21-84