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Camille Saint-Saëns composed the sonata in March 1905 while staying in Biskra, Algeria, where he found ideal working conditions due to the quietness and mild weather.He had been reminded by his cellist friends and publisher Auguste Durand to write a second cello sonata, having composed his first, the Cello Sonata No. 1 in C minor, Op. 32, nearly 30 years earlier. [1]
He received cello lessons from Joseph Menter in Munich, the most important Bavarian cello virtuoso of his time. [2] He took composition lessons from Ignaz Lachner. [2] He also learned to conduct. [2] In 1852, after briefly touring Europe as a solo cellist, he became music director in Würzburg.
The Allegro vivace is a sonata form opening with a fragmented cello theme over a tremolo piano part. [3] Its bipartite exposition somewhat unusually traverses F major, C major, and A minor; [4] Roger Graybill argued that the tonal plan may be read as ultimately returning to F major, given the intricate motivic structure of its voice leading.
John Juzek (né Janek Jůzek, aka Jan, aka Johann;1892, Písek – c. 1965, Luby) was a Czech merchant, widely known in North America as an exporter of violins, violas, cellos, and double basses made and labeled under his anglicized name, "John Juzek," crafted mostly by guilds and various independent makers in the Bohemia region of the Czechoslovakia and Germany border.
The Cello Sonata has been recorded often, played in recitals for cello and piano or in collections of Debussy's chamber music. In 1961, Mstislav Rostropovich and Benjamin Britten played it in concert at the Aldeburgh Festival in a concert for the premiere of Britten's Cello Sonata ; They subsequently recorded all pieces on the program, playing ...
The movements of Cello Concerto No. 2 are played attacca, [12] meaning the piece continues without breaks between the movements. [14] This was an unusual feature of the concerto. The instrumentation of the orchestral accompaniment to the solo cello is fairly standard, except for the inclusion of the alto saxophone.
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Brahms' antiquarian interests, his studies of music from the Renaissance to the Classical periods, show in his work — he edited and helped publish a two-chorus motet by Mozart Venite Populi, he had a collection of sonatas by Scarlatti — and in his composition, his motets Op. 74, his interest in the fugue and the passacaglia (outside of organ music such as Josef Rheinberger's Sonata No. 8 ...