Piano Suite No. 2 (Enescu)
The Suite No. 2 for piano, Op. 10, is the second composed by George Enescu between 1901 and 1903, being written in 1903 in Paris. It was published in 1904, and is dedicated to Louis Diémer.
The Toccata was written starting in 1901 and completed by three other movements for presentation at a competition in 1903, in which it won first prize. The judges included, notably, Claude Debussy and Vincent d'Indy. It is a composition that shows a French-style neoclassicism, the musician himself recognizing the influence of Debussy, but Enescu's Romanian folklore is not absent, rather, unobtrusive.
Divided into four parts, a performance requires about twenty minutes.
- Toccata
- Sarabande
- Pavane
- Bourrée
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