Soliloquy
This is Soliloquy: excerpt from 4 walls: music for the dance




Category: Musical composition
Dated: 1945
Instrumentation: Piano
Duration:
Premiere and performer(s): January 9, 1945 at the Hunter College Playhouse in New York City, with the choreography by Merce Cunningham.
Dedicated to:
Choreography: Merce Cunningham: Soliloquy (1944/45)
Published: in "Works for Piano, Prepared Piano and Toy Piano, Volume 4: 1933-1952". Edition Peters 68030 © 2005.
Manuscript: Score (holograph, signed, in ink - 3 p.) in New York Public Library.


After one single performance the Cunningham choreography Four Walls with Cage's music, sank without a trace. A few months later Cunningham rescued one of his dances which he performed seperately entitled Soliloquy, with an excerpt from the original composition by John Cage.