Mosolov - Piano Sonata No. 1

Piano Sonata No. 1 Op. 3 (1924)

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• mosolov
• roslavets
• scriabin
• prokofiev

[Reaper978]

Mosolov is one of the few composers who isn't afraid of expressing skull-cracking, brain-drilling, eye-gouging, strung up by the neck and bludgeoned to death in an insane asylum, anguished horror. And that is the way I like my music. Depraved and horrifying. Yeah... that's the good shit right there.

[Hexameron]

Great comment and I echo those sentiments completely.

[3cplantin]

Based on what metric? Your knowledge of reptiles and interest in Joan Rivers on the Celebrity Apprentice? (Kidding here -- I have my pop-culture interests, too -- and hobbies.) Seriously, though, do you have technical/analytical reasons for your evaluation? I see no evidence of "childishness" at all. On the contrary, it is a sophisticated addition to the piano repertoire of that period and deserves a more prominent place on the programs of pianists today.

[Geisterschiff]

Very disturbing music but fascinating as looking right into the eyes of a cobra...It is a pity that Mossolov was "cut down" by soviet government dedicated the rest of his life to researchbut never expressed himself so powerfully again....And also many important scores are lost too...Thanks so much for posting together with the score!!!!!!

[kalpubinc]

@gustavojoris I hear a lot of beautiful tonalities, dark, sad, and also romantic - but I hear it in another dimension. The piece is very well thought out, he is certainly not UNtalented. In fact, rarely have I heard the Piano being utilized so profoundly, to make it so sonorous in such a dark way; its part of life/death. Perhaps his music is for "twilight" listeners or "otherworld" audiences. What one cannot understand does not mean is not good.

[eurisko618]

I wonder where his rage is coming from.

[gustavojoris]

I despise atonalism. It sounds like someone destroyed a piano with a hammer, recorded the audio, then wrote the "music" down afterwards.

For me, atonalism is just an excuse for untalented composers who can't write good, beautiful music. They want to be "artists" but lack the knowledge of what true art is. I wonder what kind of person would enjoy and love "music" like the one in this piece.

[Arrow9100kj]

@ZachEatonMusic Haha! Indeed! *does awkward smile and asks lame questions in response to meeting him outside the office* LOL ^o^. But yes, you've caught me Zach, Ive been studying atonalism on the downlow for a while now. Not quite ballzy enough to upload one of my attempts yet but I still have lots more atonal material to research. This music is good for me tho. I usually write peaceful things so listening to some good oldfashioned ear rape is just what I need to break myself out of that habit.

[ZachEatonMusic]

Really fascinating piece -- thanks for sharing! ^_^

[ZachEatonMusic]

@Arrow9100kj

Well, look who I ran into here on my journey to find new composers! :D

This piece -- is truly insane. It's like a really intense version of a "soundscape" -- a horrible nightmare you can't quite wake up from. Some day, I will try my own little twist on this Nightmare formula on my piano xP You already heard one of the for orchestra, but as you know, I've abandoned multi-instrument endeavors for now.

[titusbeertsen]

Mosolov is one those composers who would have wanted the piano to have another lower octave added to the piano :)

[Arrow9100kj]

This is a fantastic piece. Im always happy to discover more atonalists. This definitely has a ghastly quality which I love! This has amazing texture and very nice contrast. One thing though......who's the performer on this one? Is it you Hex? Either way, it will take ALOT out of the pianist, stamina wise because of the length for sure! But moreso the pianist definitely has to be fond of dissonant and complex harmonies/rhythms to be motivated to learn this. Truly spectacular work.

[lovesGenet]

Sciarrino gives more of that eye-gouging feral quality.this sounds like heated up Berg with Skyabin figurations thrown in .Regilar rhytms and regular time sigs and just manic worn out old time sounding stuff. Imagination stuck in romantic modes. Look at a page of Rochberg.Coplands variations are so new yet they use all the old formal stuff but it feels like a new idea.This is just heated up ! 1920's getHonegger,Syzmanowsky.

no wonder i never see his name mentioned.