Marc-Andre Hamelin: Toccata on “L’Homme armé“ (Sheet Music)

This is my first attempt at a sheet music video. I decided to do this piece by Marc-Andre Hamelin because 1): The sheet music for it isn’t available on YouTube, and it’s a really cool original work 2): I wanted to try something challenging. While this is not Hamelin’s most difficult piece, it is definitely one of his most musically mature and original. I really hope he continues to compose in this style going forward. His harmonic language is quite unique, and he’s able to use dissonance very effectively/creatively without it becoming overwhelming. His style is sort of an amalgamation of Scriabin, Gershwin, and Alkan. This is not my sheet music, I found a PDF scan of it online from someone else (this is why there are all those notes written in pencil). I haven’t attempted to play this either, so making this video was actually kinda hard. I don’t have perfect or relative pitch so it was easy to get lost in the music at certain points. I know some of the transitions between pages aren’t 100% accurate but it should be close enough. Recording is from Hamelin on CPR in 2018. Pretty sure this all falls under fair use so please don’t take this down Hyperion :)