Клавирният стил на Албена Петрович Врачанска
The Piano Style of Albena Petrovic Vratchanska

Summary/Abstract: By analysing the solo piano piece Just Shadows (2014) as well as describing certain characteristics of other works by Bulgarian-Luxembourgian composer Albena Petrovic Vratchanska, this article aims to outline the features of the compositional approach applied by the composer in her most recent oeuvre for piano. The piano works in question have been written after a long period of avoiding keyboard instruments in her compositional output (except for a few books of pedagogical piano pieces intended for children). The compositional approach developed in these late piano works (all written after 2013) turns out to be a distinguishable individual piano style of Albena Petrovic Vratchanska representative of her artistic intentions in her years of creative maturity. In the present text, essential characteristics of her piano idiom are discussed with a special focus on musical cryptographic procedures undertaken by the composer in order to bring out the thematic material of each piano piece.

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