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Saint-Saëns, Camille: Allegro appassionato op. 43 for Violoncello and Piano 2

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Setting: Violoncello and Piano
Period: Romantic
Length: 22 pages
Weight: 0.116 kg
Published: 2014
Publisher: G. Henle Verlag
Item number: HN1227
Other reference: HN 1227
ISMN: 9790201812274
At the beginning of the 1870s, Saint-Saëns displayed a particular partiality for the violoncello. He composed his first cello sonata in December 1872, immediately after having completed the first cello concerto. It was presumably directly after thisthat he wrote the Allegro appassionato for Cello and Piano op. 43 that also appeared in a version for orchestra three years later. We do not know why he wrote the work, but it is likely that after having written two weighty works for cello,Sain
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