- Musica Callada (Music of Silence) consists of 28 pieces for piano grouped into four books.
- The work was written over the span of a decade, between 1959 and 1967, and developed out of several smaller-scale ideas.1
- An interesting note on the lack of bar lines in the first two books from Interlude:
- “Curiously, until Book III none of the movements have end bar lines. There is a sense that the music emerges from, and then gives way to, an infinite silence – but something more like the Japanese concept of silence, ma, which is not an absence of sound but a force and resonance in itself.”
- Mompou noted the following about Musica Callada:
- “Its mission is to reach the profound depths of our soul and the hidden domains of the vital force our spirits. This music is silent as if heard from within.”2
Sources
- Steven Watson, “Frederic Mompou and his Musica Callada,” Interlude (2023), accessed January 7, 2025, https://interlude.hk/frederic-mompou-and-his-musica-callada/.
- Adolf Pla, Notes in accompanying booklet, Música callada performed by Josep Colom, Eudora 2101, 2021, compact disc.
Cut IDs
21963