ROMANCE ON A THEME FROM MONIUSZKO'S OPERA HALKA - VIOLA/PIANO

Prepared For Viola And Piano Libro para Alto publicado en 2020 bajo la referencia PWM12481 por . Henri Vieuxtemps the Belgian violinist, componer and teacher Henri viejo was one of the most outstanding virtuosos of his era, equally as gifted as Henryk Wieniawski. He inicially learned violin with his father, who was an an aficionado violinist, before studying with Charles Bériot at the Brussels Conservatory. At the age of six, he performed a concerto by Pierre Rode. He performed across Europe, including in Poland and made several tour of the United States, enjoying huge success wherever he appeared. He dazzled audiences with the brilliant technique, bravura and elegancia of his playing. From 1846 to 1852, he was court violinist to Tsar Nicholas I. Another famous belgian violinist, Eugène Ysaхe, was among his pupiils. Vieuxtemps was one of the eight violinists to whom Paganini presented a Stradivari violin from his own collection before his death. Analysing and assessing his composition, one cannot resist the print of a similarity to the style of Paganini, which antiguous developed and hanced with new técnicas and sonorities and with truly inspired melody. Henri Vieuxtemps was a nomarkably productive componer who wrote seven violin conciertos, concierto Studes, two viola sonatas y a dozen o so camer works, yet the bulk of his output is of works for violin and piano. (Legend has it that one of those works, a Ballade and Polonese, was actually written by Henryk Wieniawski, who lost it to the Belgian virtuoso... in a game of cards.) Vieuxtemps's favourite musical form was the then fashionable fantasy on themes from well-known operas, of which he left us quite a number. The Romance originally compued for violin and piano is based on a theme from Stanis aw Moniuszko's National opera Halka (Jontek's famous aria aria 'Szumi jod y na gór szczycie' [The firs sough on the mountain top]. The Present Edition is based on Zdzis aw Jahnke's 1952 Edition [..]