Viola solo - advanced
SKU: M7.AST-6173
For viola solo.
Composed by
Wolfgang-Andreas Schultz.
This edition: Saddle-wire
stitching. Sheet music.
Separate edition.
Composed 1989. 8 pages.
Duration 7'. MDS (Music
Distribution Services)
#AST 6173. Published by
MDS (Music Distribution
Services) (M7.AST-6173).
ISBN 9790203800002.
UPC:
841886033597.
The
work Selbstbildnis [Self
Portrait] was composed in
1989 at the suggestion of
the viola player Gunter
Pretzel who was in search
of compositions
reflecting other pieces
of music. The Prelude
from Bach's first Suite
for violoncello solo
should be included in my
composition. As a
starting point, I chose a
theme from my opera
Sturmnacht [Stormy
Night], thus combining
two very significant
personal things: the
story of my first
full-length opera and my
love of Johann Sebastian
Bach whose music I, as
son of a church musician,
grew up with. Back then,
his portrait hung above
my piano.
Wolfgang-Andreas
Schultz.