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| Classical Composer: | Rózsa, Miklós |
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| Work: | Violin Sonata, Op. 40 |
| Year Composed: | 1985 |
| Duration: | 00:23:00 |
| Work Category: | Instrumental |
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By the time he came to write the Sonata for Violin Solo, Op. 40, in 1985-86, Rózsa had left film scoring behind yet had over sixty years of compositional experience. He brings all of it to bear in this, the most complex and challenging of his late works for solo instruments. Its structure is considerably more diffuse than his earlier sonatas; the first movement is constructed more from motivic cells than clear-cut themes, the variations which constitute the second movement wander so far from the original tune as to be virtually new material, and the concluding Vivace brings back a motive from the first movement to contrast with its own two themes. Virtuosic technique is required from the soloist throughout, and the listener is confronted with an amount of dissonance (rife with tritones and sevenths) unusual even for Rózsa, who was sometimes taken to task in Hollywood for writing film music that was too modernistic, too "Carnegie Hall". It is restless music, glowering and edgy. The work is dedicated to Manuel Compinsky, who often advised the composer on technical matters related to string instruments.
Writer: Frank K. DeWald
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