| 作曲者 | Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)・パウル・ヒンデミット |
| タイトル | Ludi Leonum |
| サブタイトル | Studies in Counterpoint, Tonal Organisation & Piano Playing |
| 出版社 | Schott（ショット） |
| 楽器編成 | piano |
| 品番 | 9790001083928 |
| 編曲者 | Giselher Schubert |
| 言語 | ドイツ語・英語・フランス語・スペイン語・日本語 |
| 形状 | 64 ページ・ハードカバー |
| 演奏時間 | 60分 |
| 作曲年 | 1943年 |
| 出版年 | 1994年 |
| 出版番号 | ED 8200 |
| ISMN | 9790001083928 |
| ISBN | 9783795702892 |
The cycle of fugues is introduced and concluded by a Praeludium and Postludium, the second formed by turning the Praeludium upside down and reading it backwards. In solving technical problems he posed himself, Hindemith created not a dry exercise but a work of considerable imagination. Intellectual achievement and sheer delight in playing are shown not to be mutually exclusive. The Ludus is a graphc example of the composer's delight in the fantastic, offered to his wife, born under the sign of Leo, as a birthday present. He illustrated the work with colored pencil, among other things drawing a lion for each entry of the subject of the fugues and for each of the twelve a different kind of lion, according to the character of the music, originally published in a limited edition but providing an instructive formal analysis of the music.