| Bridgetower Fantasy for Violin and Piano Violon et Piano Schott
Violin and piano SKU: HL.49045822 For violin and piano. Composed b...(+)
Violin and piano SKU:
HL.49045822 For
violin and piano.
Composed by Vijay Iyer.
This edition: Saddle
stitching. Sheet music.
String Solo. Softcover.
Composed 2015. 72 pages.
Duration 15'. Schott
Music #ED30264. Published
by Schott Music
(HL.49045822). ISBN
9781540024749. UPC:
888680737764.
9.25x12.0x0.29
inches. The
Kreutzer Sonata was
originally dedicated not
to Rudolphe Kreutzer (who
never performed it) but
to George Bridgetower, a
famed 18th-century
Afro-European concert
violinist. In an early
draft, Beethoven jokingly
labeled the piece in
starkly racialized terms:
Sonata Mulattica composed
for the mulatto
Brischdauer, big wild
mulatto
composer.Beethoven and
Bridgetower performed the
premiere, which was by
all accounts a success,
and even featuring some
improvised embellishment
by the violinist. While
celebrating afterwards,
the two quarreled about
what Beethoven construed
as Bridgetower's insult
of a female acquaintance;
the composer then revoked
the original dedication,
adding Kreutzer's name
instead. The work gained
acclaim, while
Bridgetower's career
languished; he eventually
died in
poverty.Bridgetower has
been the subject of
considerable research and
speculation, most notably
in poet Rita Dove's book,
Sonata Mulattica. From
our 21st-century vantage,
considering Bridgetower's
unique circumstance, we
can only see him as an
ambiguous figure who, in
embodying difference,
provoked inspiration,
fantasy, desire, anger
and, finally, erasure.My
piece is a collection of
imaginings about George
Bridgetower. It is not
programmatic, but it
takes on an episodic
character, assembled from
contrasting fragments.
The dance rhythms,
recurring figures and
gestural contours are
intended to feature the
embodied expertise and
expressivity of the
performers, who at times
must access liminal
sounds and execute
complex synchronies. I am
grateful to Jenny Koh and
Shai Wosner for involving
me in their beautiful,
virtuosic
music-making. $70.00 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 24 hours - In Stock | | |
| Sonata in D major, Op. 20 Violon et Piano [Conducteur] Edition HH
Violin & piano SKU: HH.HH423-FSP Composed by Anton Eberl. Edited by Marti...(+)
Violin & piano SKU:
HH.HH423-FSP Composed
by Anton Eberl. Edited by
Martin Harlow. Violin &
Piano. Full score and
parts. Duration 20
Minutes. Edition HH Music
Publishers #HH423-FSP.
Published by Edition HH
Music Publishers
(HH.HH423-FSP). ISBN
9790708146247. Eber
l's Sonata in D major,
Op. 20, the sixth of
seven sonatas with
violin, was composed
around 1803 and dedicated
to Dorothea Ertmann, the
highly regarded pianist
who many have suggested
as Beethoven's 'Immortal
Beloved', and to whom
that composer dedicated
his Piano Sonata in A
major, Op. 101. Unlike
many of Eberl's lesser
contemporaries, in its
duration, formal and
harmonic novelty, and in
the lively relationship
between the violin and
keyboard, his Op. 20
shares much of the
musical ambition and
quality of Beethoven's
works in this genre. 1803
saw the publication of
Eberl's Op. 20, and
Beethoven's set of three
sonatas with violin, Op.
30, all produced by the
Bureau des Arts et
d'Industrie firm in
Vienna. Beethoven's set
were advertised for sale
in the Wiener Zeitung in
May 1803, days after the
premiere of his Op. 47
sonata with violin (given
by George Bridgetower and
Beethoven, but later
dedicated to Rudolphe
Kreutzer). Eberl's Op. 20
was advertised in the
Wiener Zeitung six weeks
later, in July 1803. $29.95 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 4 to 6 weeks | | |
| Sonata for Pianoforte and Violin in A major, op. 47 "Kreutzer Sonata" Violon et Piano Barenreiter
Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827). Edited by Clive Brown. This edit...(+)
Composed by Ludwig van
Beethoven (1770-1827).
Edited
by Clive Brown. This
edition:
urtext edition. Stapled.
Barenreiter Urtext.
Performance score,
Part(s)
(2). Opus 47.
Baerenreiter
Verlag #BA10938.
Published by
Baerenreiter Verlag
$28.95 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 1 to 2 weeks | | |
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