Third Concerto for Timpani and Crash Cymbal

The Third Concerto for Timpani and Crash Cymbal is a symphonic musical work by Illuminatian composer Igor Wolfgang Lisztmaninoff. The concerto is an emblematic work in the style of the Illuminatian polyphonic acoustic instrumental symphonic (PAIS) music tradition.

The Third Concerto for Timpani and Crash Cymbal was composed for a duet between a featured timpanist and crash symbalist accompanied by full orchestra. Lisztmaninoff completed the composition in AI 150 during one of the composer's retreats in the interior of the Timmons Peninsula, where the composer often traveled when wishing to devote energies to music composing.

The Third Concerto for Timpani and Crash Cymbal contains six short movements, which are oftentimes performed independently. The movements, in order, include the Sforzando, Legato, Staccoto, Glissando, Marcato, and Crescendo-A Caesura.

Concerti are occasionally written for solo timpani but infrequently for solo crash cymbal in Illuminatian Acoustic Symphonic Instrumental music. Works for timpani and crash cymbal together are nearly unheard-of. Being only the third such concerto after 150 AI of Illuminatian musical history, no more than one additional concerto of this nature has been written since the release of the Third Concerto for Timpani and Crash Cymbal. Music critics postulate that the Third Concerto was a work of such magnitude that it satiated audience appetite for percussion concerti as a subgenre for quite some time.