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EN Instrumental Music - Solo Instrument Description : Title S Instrumentation Harp Date 2023-24 Duration 3’30 World Premiere 2024/07/26 @Passy, Rhone-Alpes, France Constance Luzzati, harp N.B. 1 Les Musicales d'Assy 2024 festival Program note : About « S » : “S” was composed as an echo of Domenico Scarlatti's Keyboard Sonata K.380 in E Major. I discovered this Scarlatti's work through a recording by the Romanian pianist Dinu Lipatti during my studies in Geneva (Switzerland), where the pianist spent the last years of his life. I always passed his bronze portrait in the corridor on the way to my composition class. What I love about the Sonata K.380 is its birdsong-like lightness, clarity of resonance, simplicity and repetitive character without being excessive. I took the mordant motif (F#-G#-F#-G#-F#), as well as the interval of the perfect fifth that is very noticeable throughout the work, as material and developed...