Classical Composer: | Albéniz, Isaac |
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Work: | Mallorca, barcarolle, Op. 202 |
Year Composed: | c. 1887 |
Instrumentation: | pf |
Publisher: | Unión Musical Española |
Duration: | 00:06:00 |
Period: | Romantic |
Work Category: | Instrumental |
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Mallorca (c. 1887) is a musical vignette of the island on which the great Polish composer spent the winter of 1839. There is great uncertainty about its date of composition, which different scholars have placed at anywhere between 1883 and 1890. Whenever it was written, this work can be seen as the bridge to Albéniz's second compositional phase, given its use of novel rhythmic material, though it is still built on recognisably Romantic melodic foundations. Subtitled 'barcarola', it begins with an impassioned melody in the minor that then leads into a light, yearning central section in the major, whose questioning nature is reinforced by an offbeat accompaniment, before a return to the opening section. The composer's nephew Víctor Ruiz Albéniz has said that& Mallorca meant so much to his uncle that when his friend Enrique Granados came to see him on his deathbed, he asked him to play it so that he could hear it one last time.
Writers: Francisco Javier Malpica and Miguel Ángel R. Laiz Translated by: Susannah Howe
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