Piano Songbook

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Martin Stadtfeld

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Composer's Artistic Vision

Martin Stadtfeld's album aims to highlight the value and magic of domestic music-making, offering pieces that can be listened to or played to find inner tranquility and self-reflection.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Martin Stadtfeld's personal motivation for this album is to offer readily accessible and intelligible music with simple harmonic structures and playable writing, allowing listeners to emotionally reconnect with themselves.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Pianist Martin Stadtfeld's album aims to move away from complex piano repertoire towards deliberate plainness and simplicity, making the music accessible and playable for amateurs.

Historical Context

Robert Schumann, a composer Martin Stadtfeld greatly admires, also created piano miniatures from well-known pieces by Handel, Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven in his 'Little Course in Music History,' though it remained a fragment.

Compositional Technique

The pieces on this album are not strict arrangements; Martin Stadtfeld extracts a defining feature from each original and then freely plays with it, considering his pieces an homage to the original composers.

Compositional Technique

To achieve simplicity, Martin Stadtfeld deliberately omits notes, avoids octaves, and reduces texture as much as possible, making the pieces playable for anyone with basic piano skills.