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PIANO QUINTET
A piano quintet, a string quartet with piano, by David Kenstad, this piece is written in 2 parts. Section I is marked Largo and Section II is marked Allegro Vivace. The Largo section is reflective, contemplative, but with hopeful optimism, and seems to be telling a story, which is passed along among the inner voices, 2nd violin and viola, as well. Section I. doesn’t quite end but rather leaves the listener hanging with a question. Section II, Allegro Vivace, then takes over with a lively development section filled with quartal harmonies and motifs, turning those of the 1st section upside down, transforming into a walking bass, and changing keys.
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About the composer
A graduate of the School of Music at the University of Wisconsin, David Kenstad studied with Les Thimmig, who was a student of Mel Powell, who studied under Paul Hindemith, who was a student of Bernhard Sekles, who studied under Engelbert Humperdinck, who studied under Ferdinand Hiller, who studied under Johann Nepomuk Hummel, who studied under Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as well as Ignaz Moscheles, who studied under Ludwig von Beethoven. Mr. Kenstad brings those European classical music traditions of aesthetics, expression, and variation, along with African-American classical musical influences, to his imaginative and complex film scores, piano works, and orchestral compositions.
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