Classical Composer: | Dallapiccola, Luigi |
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Work: | Tartiniana seconda |
Year Composed: | 1956 |
Instrumentation: | vn, pf |
Publisher: | Edizioni Suvini Zerboni (Sugarmusic SpA) |
Duration: | 00:12:00 |
Period: | 20th Century |
Work Category: | Chamber Music |
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Having produced the divertissement Tartiniana, derived from movements of unpublished violin concertos, in 1951, Dallapiccola wrote a Tartiniana seconda during 1955-6. First heard in violin and piano scoring, it was promptly orchestrated, with the addition of a brief Intermezzo. Both pieces differ from the Baroque and Classical realisations of the previous Italian generation in avoiding pastiche, as Dallapiccola was concerned not with evoking a past era, but in what relevance its music had for the present. The work opens with a keenly expressive Pastorale which evokes a mood of graceful yearning, and is followed by the rhythmically muscular Tempo di Bourrée, then the airily virtuosic Presto; leggerissimo. The final, longest movement was also the first to be written (as an 'Improvisation after Tartini'), Variazioni unfolding as a sequence of contrasted variants on the commanding theme announced at the outset.
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