Violin (VIOLIN SOLO)
SKU: HL.50487759
(1986). Composed
by Laszlo Tihanyi. EMB.
Score Only. Composed
1997. Duration 11'.
Editio Musica Budapest
#Z14099. Published by
Editio Musica Budapest
(HL.50487759).
ISBN
9790080140994. A/4
inches. Hungarian,
English. Laszlo
Tihanyi.
The piece
was composed at the
request of violinist
Eszter Perenyi, my
colleague at the Ferenc
Liszt Academy of Music,
and was several times
amond the optional pieces
of the yearly violin
competition for students.
It was inspired by the
famous 63rd poem of
Catullus that tells the
story of Attis: the hero
of the Greek mythology
arrives at the Mount Ida
in Frygia, to the
invitation of the goddess
Cybele, and becomes her
lover. The Gallas,
certitude priests of
Cybele chase him into
delirious dance, by the
end of which he castrates
himself. On waking from
his paralysed dream he
entreats in vain for his
virility and freedom to
Cybele, he will remain
servant of the goddess
for eternity. My work
tells the story in four
parts: 1) Attis' ecstasy
2) Dance of the Gallas 3)
Attis' dream 4) Attis'
entreaty. The Catullian
galliambic metric that
first appears in the
'prologue' of the piece,
becomes the
organisational principle
of almost all musical
aspects of it.
(Hungaroton HCD
32484).
