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The People United Will Never Be Defeated
Frederic Rzewski →13,912 listeners55,293 plays
pianof rzewskiel pueblo unidous composersstephen drury
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(for 62:36 in one piece click here) (& see tag el pueblo unido) The People United Will Never Be Defeated! (1975) is a piano composition by American composer Frederic Rzewski. It is a set of 36 variations on the Chilean song ¡El pueblo unido jamás será vencido! by Sergio Ortega and Quilapayún. The piece received its World Premiere on February 7, 1976, played by Ursula Oppens as part of the Bi-Centennial Piano Series at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Concert Hall. The song on which the variations is based is one of many that emerged from the Unidad Popular in Chile between 1969 and 1973, prior to the overthrow of the Salvador Allende government. Rzewski composed the variations in September and October 1975, as a tribute to the struggle of the Chilean people against a newly imposed repressive regime; indeed the work contains allusions to other leftist struggles of the same and immediately preceding time, such as quotations from the Italian traditional socialist song "Bandiera Rossa" and the Bertold Brecht-Hanns Eisler "Solidarity Song." In general, the variations are short, and build up to climaxes of considerable force. Many pianists consider the technical demands of this work to be among the most severe of any well-known work of the 20th century. The 36 variations, following the 36 bars of the tune, are in six groups of six; composer Christian Wolff has suggested that in each group, the first five represent the fingers of the hand, with the sixth represe
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¡El Pueblo Unido Jamas Sera Vencido!
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The People United will never be Defeated
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¡El Pueblo Unido Jamas Sera Vencido!: Variation 1
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¡El Pueblo Unido Jamas Sera Vencido!: Variation 2
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¡El Pueblo Unido Jamas Sera Vencido!: Variation 3
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¡El Pueblo Unido Jamas Sera Vencido!: Variation 4
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¡El Pueblo Unido Jamas Sera Vencido!: Variation 5
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¡El Pueblo Unido Jamas Sera Vencido!: Variation 6
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¡El Pueblo Unido Jamas Sera Vencido!: Variation 7
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¡El Pueblo Unido Jamas Sera Vencido!: Variation 8
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¡El Pueblo Unido Jamas Sera Vencido!: Variation 9
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¡El Pueblo Unido Jamas Sera Vencido!: Variation 10
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¡El Pueblo Unido Jamas Sera Vencido!: Variation 11
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¡El Pueblo Unido Jamas Sera Vencido!: Variation 12
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¡El Pueblo Unido Jamas Sera Vencido!: Variation 13
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¡El Pueblo Unido Jamas Sera Vencido!: Variation 14
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¡El Pueblo Unido Jamas Sera Vencido!: Variation 15
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¡El Pueblo Unido Jamas Sera Vencido!: Variation 16
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¡El Pueblo Unido Jamas Sera Vencido!: Variation 17
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¡El Pueblo Unido Jamas Sera Vencido!: Variation 18
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¡El Pueblo Unido Jamas Sera Vencido!: Variation 19
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¡El Pueblo Unido Jamas Sera Vencido!: Variation 20
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¡El Pueblo Unido Jamas Sera Vencido!: Variation 21
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¡El Pueblo Unido Jamas Sera Vencido!: Variation 22
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¡El Pueblo Unido Jamas Sera Vencido!: Variation 23
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¡El Pueblo Unido Jamas Sera Vencido!: Variation 24
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¡El Pueblo Unido Jamas Sera Vencido!: Variation 25
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¡El Pueblo Unido Jamas Sera Vencido!: Variation 26
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¡El Pueblo Unido Jamas Sera Vencido!: Variation 27
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¡El Pueblo Unido Jamas Sera Vencido!: Variation 28
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