PARTITIONS GRATUITES : 2 VIOLONS (DUO)
- Emigrating

SKU: HL.49019860

ISBN 9783795708023. German.

'Weimar am Pazifik' wurde die Anhaufung beruhmter Personlichkeiten des deutschsprachigen Geisteslebens in Los Angeles genannt. Kunstler, die aufgrund ihres Werkes oder ihrer ethnischen Herkunft von den Nationalsozialisten vertrieben wurden, liessen sich hier nieder und bauten sich fernab der Heimat eine neue Existenz auf. Der in Wien geborene Komponist Ernst Toch (1887 - 1964) war einer von ihnen. Das Schicksal der Emigration traf ihn auf dem Hohepunkt seiner Karriere: Wurde er in den Zwanziger- und beginnenden Dreissiger Jahren des 20. Jahrhunderts noch in einem Atemzug mit Paul Hindemith oder Kurt Weill genannt, musste er im Exil als Unbekannter noch einmal von vorne anfangen. In diesem Buch wird auf der Basis bislang weitgehend unveroffentlichter Quellen nicht nur der Weg des Komponisten in die Emigration, sondern auch seine Assimilation und Akkulturation an das Leben in Kalifornien nachgezeichnet.

SKU: CA.923800

ISBN 9790007241773. Language: English. Text: Campbell, Joseph.

Joseph Campbell's poem The Emigrant presents us with the inside view of an emigrant who is going to leave his native land in a few hours and before this, has a farewell party with relatives and neighbors. The alternating feelings and suppressed sadness are reflected in Buchenberg's composition which skilfully oscillates between over-exaggerated boisterousness and despair.

SKU: HH.HH585-FSP

ISBN 9790708213000.

Stan ley Sadie’s opinion, expressed in 1963, that the two of the twelve trio sonatas by Frederick Ernest Fisher(1711/12–176 0), divided equally between Op. 1 (c.1751) and Op. 2 (c.1761), were ‘among the finest of their time’ while some of the others were ‘remarkably inventive and original’ almost sells this composer short. Every single one of these works, scored for two violins, cello and harpsichord, is masterly and deserves a permanent place in the repertoire. Born in or near Kassel, Fisher spent several years in Holland, teaching music from 1741 to 1745 at the university of Leiden, before emigrating to England. After spending about two years in London he settled permanently in Cambridge, where he taught music to members of the local music society. His Op. 1 set, dedicated to the same society, epitomizes the ‘social’ character of the trio sonata genre, where individual virtuosity yields its place to amicable interaction between the players. Fisher was a cellist as well as a violinist, and this background is brought out by the rare eloquence of his bass lines. The diversity of movement types in these ordinarily three-movement sonatas is very attractive. They include powerful fugues, expansive movements in sonata form, languorous middle movements reminiscent of those in operatic overtures and a selection of dance movements, all of which mix baroque, galant and classical elements in a convincing synthesis.

SKU: HH.HH584-FSP

ISBN 9790708185994.

Stan ley Sadie’s opinion, expressed in 1963, that the two of the twelve trio sonatas by Frederick Ernest Fisher(1711/12–176 0), divided equally between Op. 1 (c.1751) and Op. 2 (c.1761), were ‘among the finest of their time’ while some of the others were ‘remarkably inventive and original’ almost sells this composer short. Every single one of these works, scored for two violins, cello and harpsichord, is masterly and deserves a permanent place in the repertoire. Born in or near Kassel, Fisher spent several years in Holland, teaching music from 1741 to 1745 at the university of Leiden, before emigrating to England. After spending about two years in London he settled permanently in Cambridge, where he taught music to members of the local music society. His Op. 1 set, dedicated to the same society, epitomizes the ‘social’ character of the trio sonata genre, where individual virtuosity yields its place to amicable interaction between the players. Fisher was a cellist as well as a violinist, and this background is brought out by the rare eloquence of his bass lines. The diversity of movement types in these ordinarily three-movement sonatas is very attractive. They include powerful fugues, expansive movements in sonata form, languorous middle movements reminiscent of those in operatic overtures and a selection of dance movements, all of which mix baroque, galant and classical elements in a convincing synthesis.

SKU: HL.333271

SKU: A2.S034

ISBN 978-0-89579-775-9. 8.5x11 inches.

This edition includes three piano works by the German-Jewish composer Hans Samuel (1901-76), who was active primarily as an organist and composer of organ music. The selected works - Hassidic Hanukkah Tune: Al hanissim we al hapurkan (1946), Sounds of Slichoth: Paraphrases on S'lichoth Tunes According to the Ashkenas-Western Mode (1957, dedicated to the composer's parents, who perished in Theresienstadt), and Variations on a Yemenite Tune (undated) - were composed after Samuel's emigration to Palestine in 1939. Besides exemplifying the heightened awareness of diverse Jewish musical traditions that characterizes Samuel's music after his emigration, these works are representative of Israeli immigrant composers' early struggles to attempt to define their new nation musically.