• Publisher Code: 0571567371
  • Title: Locus Solus (piano)
  • Subtitle: Locus Solus (piano)
  • Composer: Woolrich, John
  • Publisher: Faber Music
  • Instrumentation: Piano
  • Product Type: Faberprint
  • Total pages: 18
  • Publication Date: 18/09/2003
  • ISMN: 9780571567379
  • EAN: 0571567371
  • Genre: Classical, Contemporary
  • Product Category: Piano Solo
  • Product media description: Instrumental Music
  • Sub category: Repertoire
  • Dimensions: 297X210
  • John Woolrich’s Locus Solus is a 12-minute scherzando, mostly fast music placed around a still centre. Its title comes from Raymond Roussel’s 1914 novel of the same name, in which an inventor has invited a group of colleagues to visit the park of his country estate, Locus Solus (‘a solitary place’). There he shows them a series of inventions of ever-increasing complexity and strangeness, with innumerable ramifications: an aerial pile-driver constructing a mosaic of teeth, a gigantic diamond filled with what water in which floats a dancing girl, a hairless cat, the preserved head of Danton and, finally, eight death-haunted tableaux vivants.