Violin, piano
SKU:
BR.EB-9413
Composed
by Nicola Campogrande.
Solo instruments;
stapled. Edition
Breitkopf. New music
(post-2000). Score.
Composed 2020. 28 pages.
Duration 9'. Breitkopf
and Haertel #EB 9413.
Published by Breitkopf
and Haertel (BR.EB-9413).
ISBN 9790004188873. 9
x 12 inches.
For a
long time after
Romanticism had come to
the fore, it was
generally agreed that
Brahms somehow did not
get it: History and
Progress - it was thought
- were proceeding along
one clear path and Brahms
- who was composing
sonatas and symphonies
instead of nocturnes and
symphonic poems - had
taken the wrong way.
Almost one century later,
Schonberg wrote an essay,
Brahms, der
Fortschrittliche (Brahms,
the progressive), in
which he explained that
it wasn't like that at
all.Fully assuming the
risk to appear somehow
irreverent, I have to
confess: Over the years,
I came to the conclusion
that the present - and
the future - can be
created only by loving
the past. As Brahms had
shown us, it is only by
accepting the challenge
of taking our heritage
into our own hands, that
we can create something
new. We cannot avoid
engaging with the past.
Therefore, starting with
my Sinfonia n. 1, I began
to flirt with such a
strong and effective
musical structure like
the sonata form. I
re-read and freely
transformed it, because
it is a sturdy and
resilient structure, but
also a theatrical and
colorful one. For me, it
is a happy structure. And
I think that today more
than ever we need
something like this: We
need to find places -
even imaginary ones -
where we can give
happiness a form of its
own.Nicola Campogrande,
December
2020
World
premiere: Bologna/Italy,
Streaming, April 11,
2021Commissioned by the
Fondazione Musica
Insieme.
