One movement.

2 pianos or piano four hands.

1956 Juan Tena's company. Wladimir Skouratoff, choreography. Jorge Egea and Clotilde Osta, piano. Teatre Calderón, Barcelona.

For Juan Tena's Ballet.

Ballet music for two pianos. Version for piano four hands by the duet Eulàlia i Ester Vela.

Comments

"Montsalvatge remembered, at the end of the 1940s, that he had composed a certain number of works intended for ballet and which were performed by the sisters Alexandre, Paul Goubé, Joan Magrinà and Trini Borrul. One of the dancers for whom he created was Joan Tena, who asked the composer for a piece of music to set up a choreography that suggested the characteristic style and rhythms of black North-americans. This work, dated 1956, as Montsalvatge explains, is not intended to have a truly serious aspect, and at that time it was performed, liked and even disappeared from the composer's control. Years later, Montsalvatge met Joan Tena again and, remembering that collaboration, the dancer sent the author a copy of the score for two pianos, just as it was in the original."

Lluís Trullén, 1999.