Jason Freeman

Inspired by the tradition of open-form musical scores, I composed Just Tristan as a collection of fifteen chords, each a different voicing of pitches found in Wagner’s “Tristan” chord. The chords are visually linked on the score by arrows. In performance, pianists follow those arrows to jump from chord to chord and create a unique version of the piece.

I composed Just Tristan at the request of Akademie Schloss Solitude, for a concert celebrating the Akademie’s twentieth anniversary. My thanks to Schloss Solitude and to Jean-Baptiste Joly for supporting and nurturing my artistic and professional development as a composer.