After Death

2001

for piano trio

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Still from Evgenii Bauer's 1915 silent film After Death, showing a man seated in an armchair while a ghostly female figure in white stands behind him in a darkened room
Still from Evgenii Bauer's After Death (1915).

After Death (2001) is Nicholas Brown’s score for piano trio, commissioned by the British Film Institute to accompany a new release of Evgenii Bauer’s 1915 silent film of the same name.

Bauer’s film, based on Ivan Turgenev’s story Klara Milich, follows a young man haunted by the spirit of an actress who died for love of him.

First page of the score of After Death showing initial string entry.
Score excerpt. After Death

After Death was first performed alongside a screening of the film by the Triptych Piano Trio at Magdalen Auditorium, Magdalen College, Oxford, in an event produced by Oxford Contemporary Music.

After Death on IMDB