Morpheus

Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-0-19-386436-8
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Sonstiges, Englisch, 20 Seiten, Format (B × H): 227 mm x 304 mm, Gewicht: 93 g

for viola and piano
This piece is one of the finest compositions for viola by one of the instrument's greatest players. It is luxuriant in melodic inventions and startlingly beautiful in its instrumental colours. The piano is a full partner to the viola, contributing an equal share of melodic interest and colouristic effects.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Clarke, Rebecca

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikinstrumente Saiteninstrumente

Über Autor(innen)

Rebecca Clarke was born in Harrow in 1886 and died in New York City in 1979.
She was one of the finest viola players of her day and a skilful composer who studied with Stanford at the Royal College of Music in London.
Her output as a composer was small, comprising about 90 works, but all these pieces are brilliant and powerful. Her Piano Trio and Viola Sonata are often played and recorded, and are now widely regarded as masterpieces. However her songs are perhaps her finest body of works, and embrace a variety of styles from Blakean simplicity to brutal tragedy and outright farce.
Rebecca Clarke's choral music was virtually unknown until Oxford University Press began to publish these works for the first time. She wrote for chorus and other vocal ensembles throughout virtually her whole career, from her earliest attempts at composition around 1906 to her final flowering in the 1940s, revising and recomposing until as late as 1976.