György Orbán: AULOS

Piano pieces for practising polyphony by Hungarian contemporary composer György Orbán

György Orbán is one of the most noted, most prolific and most performed Hungarian composers today. His first piano works were of rather large scale, he composed four sonatas and six suites for piano. A few years ago he contributed about a hundred short pieces for Ágnes Lakos's new tutorial, The Friendly Piano Method. The task aroused his interest in music pedagogy in shorter works that are equally interesting for a mature ear.

The collection surveys the technical vocabulary of polyphony: imitation, fugue, stretto, inversion, augmentation, diminution, double counterpoint, latent polyphony, double fugue, triple fugue...