Guitar; Violin
SKU:
UT.CH-248
Composed by
Nicolo Paganini. Edited
by Italo Vescovo. Saddle
stitching. Classical. Ut
Orpheus #CH 248.
Published by Ut Orpheus
(UT.CH-248).
ISBN
9790215324183. 9 x 12
inches.
The
considerable and
important musical
production by Nicolò
Paganini for violin and
guitar is now increased
to a small but
significant degree with
the publication of the
Sei piccoli Valtz
(the title is not the
composer’s). They
are brief but very
pleasing pieces, in which
it is easy to perceive
the spirit with which the
great Genoese musician
wrote his short
compositions.
These
are autograph
compositions, where the
instrumental indication
(violin) is present only
at the sixth. They could
be considered almost
‘musical
jottings’ found in
two manuscript
collections of music for
guitar, the
Ghiribizzi and the
37 Sonate, but
which have never been
transcribed and completed
before now. Their musical
structure is simple, as
is found in this kind of
composition, and is
organised mostly in
bipartite form, except
for the Valtz n. 6
which it is tripartite
(with the Minore
and the Da Capo al
Fine).
It is most
likely to be the violin
part of compositions for
violin and guitar, given
the musical
characteristics of the
six pieces, similar to
other music by Paganini
such as the Sei
Cantabili e Valtz
dedicated to Camillo
Sivori.
It must not
then be ruled out, given
the numbering allocated
by the composer to the
first five Valtz, that
they might even be the
evidence of a
‘project’
which was perhaps never
completed, or else
finished and lost, of
which in fact only these
few pages remain.
