Composed by Bohuslav
Martinu. Arranged by
Karel Å olc. Stapled.
Replaces H 5797. Piano
reduction, Part. H 226,
No. 1. Baerenreiter
Verlag #BA11527_90.
Published by Baerenreiter
Verlag (BA.BA11527-90).
ISBN 9790260107946. 31
x 24.5 cm inches.
Preface: Sandra
Bergmannova.
Bohusl
av Martinu wrote his
First Violin Concerto in
Paris in 1932-33, this
work having been
commissioned by the
violin virtuoso Samuel
Dushkin. However, it was
never performed during
the composer's lifetime
and was even considered
lost after his death. It
was not until 1961 that
musicologist and
collector Hans
Moldenhauer bought it
from Boaz Piller,
contrabassoonist of the
Boston Symphony
Orchestra. Moldenhauer
approached Czech
violinist Josef Suk, who
gave the world premiere
of the work with the
Chicago Symphony
Orchestra under Georg
Solti in October
1973.
This piano
reduction is based on the
musical text of the first
edition. The solo part
has been revised by a
leading Czech violinist
and performer of
Martinu's music.
*
Major violin concerto of
the 20th century * New
Foreword by Martinu
scholar Sandra
Bergmannova
(Cz/Eng/Ger)
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.
Violin, piano (solo: vl - 2.2.2.2 - 4.2.0.0 - timp - str) SKU: BR.EB-10708(+)
Violin, piano (solo: vl -
2.2.2.2 - 4.2.0.0 - timp
- str)
SKU:
BR.EB-10708
Urtext. Composed
by Max Bruch. Edited by
Michael Kube. Arranged by
Johannes Umbreit. Solo
instruments; stapled.
Edition Breitkopf.
In
Cooperation with
G. Henle Verlag
Solo
concerto; Romantic;
Late-romantic. Piano
reduction. 76 pages.
Duration 25'. Breitkopf
and Haertel #EB 10708.
Published by Breitkopf
and Haertel
(BR.EB-10708).
ISBN
9790201807089. 9.5 x 12
inches.
Bruch's
evergreen for the first
time in Urtext Thanks to
the premiere performance
by Joseph Joachim and to
the release of the
printed edition in 1868,
Max Bruch's Violin
Concerto no. 1 zipped
onto the road to success
and has never left it
since. Yet from the
preface of the
BreitkopfUrtext
edition,one can infer how
things looked like behind
the dazzling facade.
After the world premiere,
the composer struggled
for the definitive form.
He wrote 3, 4 development
sections in the finale,
and sought the advice of
celebrated virtuosi such
as Joseph Joachim and
Ferdinand David to revise
the solo part. And after
all this was done (see
above), Bruch suffered
under the work's
popularity: Have I
written nothing but this
one concerto? The new
Urtext edition is based
primarily on the first
edition. Next to the main
source and the autograph,
what is supremely
interesting is a solo
part with entries by
Joachim and Bruch. It
confirms how intensively
the two men collaborated
on honing the final form
of the work.