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Paul Juon: Zwiegespräch (Conversation)

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Channel: PSearPianist · 2015 · Music

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Phillip Sear plays a short 'conversation-piece' by the Swiss/Russian composer Paul Juon (1872-1940).
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Paul Juon (Павел Фёдорович Юон) (1872-1940) was born in Moscow to Swiss parents.  He trained there, but spent much of his working life teaching and composing in Berlin, retiring to Switzerland in 1934.  I have seen him described (ridiculously) as the 'Russian Brahms', but despite a relatively conservative harmonic idiom, his later music seems to me pretty 'cutting-edge' for the time in its spare textures and modern 'feel'.  However, this piece is not typical of his mature style, having been written c. 1894 for a competition run by the German 'Neuen Musik-Zeitung' journal, for which it received honourable mention from the jury.

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