Passacaglia on DSCH [SEP] instrumentation
Passacaglia on DSCH
The Passacaglia on DSCH is a large-scale composition for solo piano by the British composer Ronald Stevenson. It was composed between 24 December 1960 and 18 May 1962, except for two sections added on the day of the first performance on 10 December 1963. The composer presented a copy of the score to Dmitri Shostakovich, its dedicatee, at the 1962 Edinburgh Festival. 
Description of form.
The work takes the principle of the passacaglia or chaconne - namely, strict variations on an unchanging subject,
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