Zbinden  Jf  Bluthner  Variationen  Pno67
Julien-François Zbinden
Blüthner–Variationen op. 111
for piano
intermediate / advanced Duration: 10' Swiss Composers Series

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PNO67

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Julien-François Zbinden

Julien-François Zbinden (1917-2021)

Julien-François Zbinden was born on November 11th, 1917 in Rolle (Vaud/Switzerland). After having studied piano, with secondary studies in voice and violin, he began in 1938 his musical career as a pianist in a jazz band, having had a passion for jazz at an early age. As a composer, he was self-taught at the beginning, so to speak. After 1947 he worked at the musical department of Radio Suisse...
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About Blüthner–Variationen

The time had come to pay homage to someone who has been a faithful companion to me for 65 years and has witnessed of the joy and pain I have endured during the writing of all of my opuses, from 8 to 111. Today he still shares my fervor for jazz music and our wonderful complicity has been preserved on my piano solo album, The Last Call...?* which I recorded at the age of 93. This “someone” is my instrument, an old grand piano over 100 years old: Blüthner No. 89293, model 190, constructed in 1910 in Leipzig, Germany, and to which I dedicate this Opus 111, the very last of my series of works for piano.

It is my hope that future performers will like the undeniably jazzy orientation of this work.

Julien-François Zbinden, Lausanne – Valombré, 23 juillet 2012

Product details

Composed
2012
Genre
contemporary
Published
2012
Publisher
Editions Bim