Triakontameron
Triakontameron is a suite of 30 pieces in six volumes for piano composed from 1919 to 1920 by Leopold Godowsky; each was written in a single day, and all are written in three-four time. The entire suite took Godowsky over five months to complete, with twenty being composed in Seattle, and the rest being composed intermittently between Los Angeles, New York, and the final piece in Chicago. The pieces were not presented in order of composition.
The title was inspired by that of Boccaccio's Decameron. The work was written in a period of ten days, with the concept of the suite being a ten-day journey where ten people tell 100 stories. Among the best-known excerpts of the suite are Alt Wien, Nocturnal Tangier, and Ethiopian Serenade.
Music
- Volume I
- : 1. Nocturnal Tangier
- : 2. Sylvan Tyrol
- : 3. Paradoxical Moods
- : 4. Rendezvous
- : 5. Twilight Phantasms
- Volume II
- : 6. The Pleading Troubadour
- : 7. Yesteryear
- : 8. A Watteau Paysage
- : 9. Enchanted Glen
- : 10. Resignation
- Volume III
- : 11. Alt-Wien
- : 12. Ethiopian Serenade
- : 13. Terpsichorean Vindobona
- : 14. Whitecaps
- : 15. The Temptress
- Volume IV
- : 16. An Old Ballade
- : 17. An American Idyll
- : 18. Anachronisms
- : 19. A Little Tango Rag
- : 20. Whirling Dervishes
- Volume V
- : 21. The Salon
- : 22. An Epic
- : 23. The Music-Box
- : 24. Lullaby
- : 25. Memories
- Volume VI
- : 26. The Cuckoo Clock
- : 27. Lament
- : 28. Quixotic Errantry
- : 29. Poëme Macabre
- : 30. ''Requiem : Epilogue''