Wyschnegradsky - Twenty-four Preludes in Quarter-tones; No. 3

Ivan Wyschnegradsky (1893-1979) is typically acknowledged as a microtonal composer who spent most of his creative life in Paris and Germany developing his theories and "ultrachromatic scales." Before his emigration to Paris in 1920, he studied composition at the St. Petersburg Conservatory and became an avant-garde composer. Wyschnegradsky was clearly a disciple of Scriabin's music. He actually experienced something like an epiphany after hearing Scriabin's works and thereafter became a mystic, abandoned his Wagnerian approach to music, and emulated the "scriabinesque." His early orchestral work "The Journey of Existence" owes much to Scriabin's "Poem of Ecstasy". However, he was more interested in pursuing quarter-tone composition and even had Scriabin-like visions that this kind of music would push mankind to the next step in evolution. Composers like Messiaen and Boulez appreciated and performed his microtonal music, but there is virtually no interest in Wyschnegradsky today.

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[gymgymgymgym]

the theory of this type of music must be crazy!

[DeadRavers]

sounds like every time I play Chopin on a piano at Goodwill....

[pondwatcher]

@MrOliverKjaerulff I was wondering how they did it!

[Kivimusic]

Thats absolutely MAGIC.

[jazzbuckeye]

tabs plz

[17205513]

@PippiQ9 it makes me want to laugh as well. Something about is funny in an odd way.

[HerrWarja]

This is very soothing, in a weary and scary way...

[PippiQ9]

This makes me chuckle

[SteinwayArtist]

imagine if Yiruma started using quarter tones....

[DCioccoloni]

@vincentizghra just use half-sharps and half-flats.

[vincentizghra]

Can somebody explain how to write this music on traditional sheetpaper?