Piano Accompaniment;
Violin
SKU:
HL.50600872
Violin
and Piano. Composed
by Marius Felix Lange.
String. Classical.
Softcover. 24 pages.
Sikorski #SIK8741.
Published by Sikorski
(HL.50600872).
8.25x11.75x0.077
inches.
The operas
of Marius Felix Lange,
especially “Snow
White,†“The
Canterville Ghost,â€
“Die
Schneekönigin,â€
“Das Opernschiff
oder Am Südpol, denkt
man, ist es heisseâ€
have been incredibly
successful. Many of his
operas have also been
performed on foreign
stages, including those
in Switzerland and
France. Other points of
emphasis in Lange's work
include orchestral
compositions and Lieder.
The American violinist
Hilary Hahn had an
unusual yet very clever
idea in 2012 when she
requested encore pieces
from present-day
composers. The cycle
“In 27 Pieces: The
Hilary Hahn
Encores†were
consecutively premiered
by the violinist until
the end of the 2012/13
season and recorded on
CD. Amongst the
submissions selected by
Hilary Hahn during the
course of an online
contest, Marius Felix
Lange's violin piece
“Nutcracker's
Nightmareâ€
immediately ended up
amongst the ten
best-placed works. The
title “Nutcracker's
Nightmare†recalls
E.T.A. Hoffmann's famous
fairytale “The
Nutcracker and the Mouse
King,†the gloomily
imaginative story in
which a wooden toy is
awakened to life and has
to fight against the
powers of darkness.