Passacaglia (Godowsky)

Passacaglia
by Leopold Godowsky
Portrait of the composer at the piano by Polish painter Jan Ciągliński (1911)
KeyB minor
OccasionOne-hundredth anniversary of Franz Schubert's death
Based onSchubert'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. Typical of Godowsky's composition style, the piece contains dense contrapuntal, polyphonic, and chromatic writing.

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