Mode de valeurs et d'intensités pour piano
195733735Paris: Durand & Cie PN 13.494 1957. Loose folio. Original publisher's ivory printed wrappers. 1f. recto title verso notes 3-11 i publisher's advertisement pp.<br/><br/>Wrappers slightly worn torn and creased; small rectangular bookseller's sticker to lower margin of upper. Uniformly browned; publisher's handstamp to title. First Edition later issue. Simeone I/32.<br/><br/>The Mode de valeurs et d'intensités premiered in Tunis with the composer at the piano in 1950.<br/><br/>"Teacher and pupils stimulated one another and for a short time it seemed that Messiaen was about to join his younger colleagues on the road to and through total serialism. His piano piece Mode de valeurs et d'intensités which he wrote while teaching at the Darmstadt summer course in 1949 allots a particular duration and a particular dynamic level to each of the just 36 notes in play; it had a crucial impact on both Boulez and Stockhausen." Paul Griffiths in Grove Music Online. Durand & Cie [PN 13.494] unknown books
