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2. Melody in Db major

Maarten Smit

About the composer
Born and currently living in The Netherlands, Smit started playing the piano at age 9. Even though his current job isn't in the musical field, he enjoys improvising on the piano and composing.
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Who's this piece for?
Ideal for intermediate pianists with a solid foundation that want to explore modern sounds and original styles.
3-4 pages
Modern
Db major

MOOD: Calm and dreamy.

TECHNIQUE: 6 hands.

Ranking
Equivalent to RCM level 7
Equivalent to ABRSM level 6
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2002

On the Transmigration of Souls, John Adams' homage to the victims of the 9/11 attacks premieres in NYC.

2003

Licht ("Light"), Karlheinz Stockhausen's cycle of seven operas, started in 1977 and was completed in 2003 with the opera Sonntag aus Licht.

2004

Third largest ever recorded earthquake devastates the west coast of northern Sumatra, Indonesia.

2012

The existence of the Higgs Boson was confirmed at the Large Hadron Collider in Cern, Switzerland.

2015

Melody was composed by M. Smit at the age of 56 years old.

2016

Bob Dylan receives the Nobel Prize for Literature.

2016

Pierre Boulez, one of the dominant figures of the post-war classical music world, dies on January 5th.

2018

Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking dies on March 14th.

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