Violin Duet
SKU:
BT.EMBZ14880
Leichte Duos für zwei
Violinen. Composed by
Janos Lavotta.
Educational Tool. Book
Only. Composed 2014. 48
pages. Editio Musica
Budapest #EMBZ14880.
Published by Editio
Musica Budapest
(BT.EMBZ14880).
Composer and
violinist János Lavotta
(1764-1820), as a member
of the ''virtuoso trio''
who played a great role
in the history of
Hungarian music, was one
of the pioneers of
verbunkos music. (The
other two key players
being János Bihari and
Antal Csermák.) Although
Lavotta s Violin Duos Op.
49 must have also been
used for playing music at
home, they show the
composer's clear
educational intent since
the fourteen consecutive
pieces gradually increase
in difficulty in both
technical and musical
respects. The relatively
short and undemanding
melodies (which can be
grasped by beginners),
the sequence-like
structure that makes
practising individual
technical elements
possible,
therhythmical-harmonic
accompanying forms, as
well as the temperately
applied modulations are
definitely suitable for
beginner violinists to
achieve significant
progress in playing.
According to music
historian Mária Domokos,
Lavotta's duos could have
been included in the
syllabus of any
contemporary music school
at the time. The first
publication of Easy Duos
- which came out on the
250th anniversary of the
Lavotta's birth - was
edited by János
Dombóvári who provided
the fingering and the
necessary instructions
for performance.
Die Erstauflage
von EASY DUOS - die
anlässlich des 250.
Geburtstag von Lavotta
erschien - wurde von
János Dombóvári mit
Fingersätzen und
Spiel-Tipps ergänzt. Die
14 relativ kurzen,
spielfreundlichen
Melodien, die
unkomplizierte
rhythmisch-harmonischeStr
uktur und die einfachen
Modulationen machen sie
zu idealen
Übungsstücken für
Anfänger, ohne diese
jedoch zu
unterfordern.