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works for keyboard, both before 1685 and after 1945?
I thought I would ask this because the mainstream repertoire is in between these time periods, so I was curious about your opinion of the works for keyboard composed in these less payed attention to eras.
I would have to say that my favorite piece before 1685 would be Byrd's Hornpipe for Keyboard, MB39, or the Misereres. It is hard to choose.
It would be equally hard to pick just one work from 1945-2006 ,,, but I a Few of my favorites would be Ligeti's Autumn in Warsaw Etude (no 6), The Devil's Staircase (no 13), Xenakis' Herma or Evryali, Or Messiaen's Vingt Regards.
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Before 1685 - I don't know any pieces well enough!
I think Dutilleux's Piano Sonata just sneaks in at the 1945 marker, so I pick that.
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Lutoslawski's Variations on a Theme of Paganini is one, especially the orchestral arrangement.
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Originally posted by Max W:
\I think Dutilleux's Piano Sonata just sneaks in at the 1945 marker, so I pick that. Yeah! I just heard that one for the first time at a recital a couple weeks ago. I loved it.
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Before:
Sweelinck - Variations on "Mein junges leben hat ein ende"
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Ginastera - Sonata #1 (1952)
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Before- Allemande by Gibbons
After- I don't know!
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Before: La Campanella (Liszt)
After: Sadly N/A.
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Originally posted by Puckettmeister86:
Before: La Campanella (Liszt)
??? Liszt wasn't born until 1811. And if I remember right, Liszt's etudes (including La Campanella) weren't written until 1838.
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Before: probably Byrd: Sellinger's Round.
After: given that Messiaen's Vingt regards would not qualify (1944), I would probably choose something from Ligeti's etudes (Escalier du diable?).
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I was wondering about Messiaen's Regards. I didn't know if they qualified, so I just put them down anyways. ...1944/1945 haha 
"Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time."
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