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Debussy - Sonata for Violin and Piano in G minor (HEN)

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Debussy - Sonata for Violin and Piano in G minor (HEN)
Price:
42.95 CAD
Instrument:
Violin
Sub Instrumentation:
Violin & Keyboard
Composer:
Debussy, Claude
Publisher:
Henle
Editor/Arranger:
Heinemann, Ernst-Günter
ISBN/ISMN:
M201804101
SKU:
DEBUS022

Debussy had intended to write a cycle comprising six sonatas. However, as he was seriously ill, he was forced to conclude it with the third one. Whereas the Sonata for Cello and Piano and the one for Flute, Viola and Harp were quickly written in 1915, an unusually fruitful compositional year, the violin sonata posed difficulties for the composer in the following year. He struggled with the finale in particular, and was only able to send the work to the publisher Durand in April 1917. Its difficult genesis is soon forgotten when one listens to the resulting work: it displays perfect classicism and is full of life, as the composer himself remarked.

Preface by François Lesure
Fingering by Klaus Schilde
Fingering and bowing of violin part by Kurt Guntner