/ Piano 4 Mains
SKU: HL.50493492
SKU: HL.50493488
SKU: UT.CH-31
ISBN 9790215302471. 9 x 12 inches. Transcribed by Pietro Bottesini.
Saverio Mercadante: Cavatina Era felice un dì nell’opera Andronico; Aria Mi vieta fin di piangere nell’opera Nitocri; Cavatina nell’opera NitocriGiacomo Meyerbeer: Cavatina Se il fato barbaro nell’opera Romilda e CostanzaStefano Pavesi: Aria Io godrò nell’opera Antigona e LausoGioachino Rossini: Aria nell’opera Ciro in Babilonia
SKU: BR.SON-454
ISBN 9790004803646. 9 x 12 inches.
The Violin Concerto in E minor, op. 64, and the Sonata in F minor, op. 4, are the only works for solo violin that Mendelssohn had had printed during his lifetime. However, his complete oeuvre includes other completed or fragmentary compositions, including two further concertos and several unfinished sonatas and other individual pieces. He himself had an extraordinary command of the violin and entrusted the instrument in several other works, such as the Octet op. 20 or the concert aria Infelice! - Ah, ritorno, eta dell'oro, with special tasks. Nevertheless, with regard to details of playing technique, he usually sought advice from solo violinist friends, first from Eduard Ritz, then, after Ritz's early death, from Ferdinand David. The present volume contains all of the completed and fragmentary compositions for violin and piano that have survived - from the early Prelude and Fugue in D and G minor from Zelter's practice book (1820), which can be assigned without doubt, through to the Sonata in F major (1838) in their various versions.