Tristan Pfaff KAROL BEFFA Douze Études

Composer and pianist, Karol Beffa is also a musicologist. Passionate about György Ligeti’s work, he published an impressive monograph of the Hungarian composer in 2016. As early as 1998, he had already chosen Ligeti’s Etudes as the subject of his PhD dissertation. It is probably no coincidence that among Beffa’s early compositions there should have been several Etudes for piano, about which he has written: "Even though they were not strictly speaking 'Ligetian' etudes, like those of Ligeti, they too showed the intention to focus on a compositional problem to be dealt with in all its aspects, like a nucleus that radiates throughout the entire piece".