Sarasate, Pablo de: Gypsy Airs op. 20 for Violin and Piano

sheet music

Setting: Violin and Piano
Period: Romantic
Length: 29 pages
Weight: 0.16 kg
Publisher: G. Henle Verlag
Item number: HN0573
ISMN: 9790201805733
Following Paganini's death, numerous musicians strove to assume his position as the ''devil's violinist'', but none of them were able to do so as convincingly as the Spaniard Pablo de Sarasate. His unique violin technique enthralled the public right from the start. So it was no surprise that Sarasate composed highly virtuosic pieces for his own use. Composed in 1877, the ''Gypsy Airs'' are in the form of a broadly conceived Hungarian Csßrdßs, exhibiting all of the refinement of breakneck violin playing. They still present a challenge to all great violinists. We were able to win over a modernday sorcerer of the violin for our Urtext edition: Ingolf Turban, who provided fingerings and bowings.

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