Cello; Piano
Accompaniment (Cello Part
And Piano Score)
SKU:
HL.49046442
Cello
and Piano. Composed
by Richard Strauss.
String Solo. Classical.
Softcover. 80 pages.
Duration 1560 seconds.
Schott Music #CB301.
Published by Schott Music
(HL.49046442).
ISBN
9781540094780. UPC:
842819113003.
The
Cello Sonata Op. 6 was
composed over an
apparently frequently
interrupted period of
three years, an
extraordinarily long time
for Strauss's early
creative phase. The
compositional process
spawned two independent
versions of the work, the
first of which is
published for the first
time on the basis of the
text in the Critical
Edition of the Works of
Richard Strauss in the
current editionas a
practical musical text.
The genesis of the two
versions and the reasons
for revision can only be
reconstructed in part:
only one of the surviving
autographs bears a date
and the second version
only survives in printed
form. What is more,
Strauss did not
communicate in greater
detail on this
composition in
correspondence with his
family and friends. There
are enormous differences
between the two versions
of the Sonata: Strauss
deleted the entire second
and third movements
Larghetto and Allegro
vivace, replacing them
with a newly composed
Andante and Finale. In
the first movement,
Allegro con brio, Strauss
retained the
thematic-motivic material
and compositionally
complex passages such as
the three-voice fugue in
the developmentsection
(from bar 241 in the
first version and bar 275
in the second version)
almost intact in the new
version of the sonata,
but also undertook
extensive alterations,
particularly in the
structure of the piano
part, the
motivic-thematic
development of the
movement and its harmony
which became far more
ambitious.12 Particular
attention should be drawn
to the repetitive
accompaniment of the con
espressione theme
beginning in bar 32 and
the significantly shorter
development in the first
version. The current
printed edition of the
first version of Richard
Strauss's Cello Sonata
now makes it possible to
follow Strauss's
compositional development
during this period. The
significance of the
differences between the
versions also mean that
two sonata compositions
for violoncello and piano
by Richard Strauss with
fundamental disparities
in their underlying
character are now
available for
performance.
