Chamber music
Keyboards
1981
Cherubino
Three miniatures for piano
Period of composition 1980-81
Duration 8 minutes
Dedicated to Götz Friedrich
World premiere
World premiere 23. august 1981
Berlin · Deutsche Oper Berlin
Piano Homero Francesch
Comment
Composed for the opening of the 1981/82 season of the Berlin Deutsche Oper. In these three fantasies, motifs and harmonies from the canzona “Voi che sapete” from act II of “The Marriage of Figaro” appear and reappear as if in a kaleidoskope.
Hans Werner Henze