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Tan Dun - Eight Memories in Water Color: For Piano Solo

by Tan Dun

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A piano suite shaped by memory, distance, and musical study

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A piano suite shaped by memory, distance, and musical study

Composed in 1978–79, Eight Memories in Water Color gathers eight piano movements written as Tan Dun left Hunan for conservatory study in Beijing. The suite is presented as a diary of homesickness and longing, rooted in the transition between a home landscape and immersion in Western classical and modern music. Its compact 16-page score offers performers a focused encounter with an early work whose personal circumstances and musical education are closely intertwined. The edition also documents the work’s later concert life through Lang Lang’s 2003 premiere at the Kennedy Center.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Pianists seeking a compact contemporary classical suite
  • Performers interested in Tan Dun’s early piano music
  • Musicians exploring works shaped by Chinese background and Western conservatory study

Themes

HomesicknessMemoryHome and departurePiano repertoireCross-cultural musical education

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Book overview

(Piano). This eight-movement suite was written by composer Tan Dun when he was a student in 1978-1979, about the time he left his home in Hunan to study at the conservatory in Beijing. He was homesick, and wrote this suite as a diary of his longing, while also being immersed in studying Western classical and modern music. Twenty years after its composition, pianist Lang Lang premiered the suite at the Kennedy Center in 2003, and he also played it at Carnegie Hall, in a performance recorded by Deutsche Grammophon.
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