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Sonate für Viola Solo / Sonata for Viola Solo

Composer
Ligeti György
Original / Hungarian title
Sonate für Viola solo / Szólószonáta brácsára
Foreign language / English title
Sonate für Viola Solo / Sonata for Viola Solo
Dedication
1. Hora lungǎ: für Tabea Zimmermann
2. Loop: Alfred Schlee zum 90. Geburtstag
3. Facsar: Veress Sándor emlékére
4. Prestissimo con sordino: für Klaus Klein
5. Lamento: für Louise Duchesneau
6. Chaconne chromatique: für Tabea Zimmermann
Year of composition
1994
Type
Instrumental solo
Number of players
1
Instrumentation
vla.
Duration
22 min
Movements, parts
1. Hora lungǎ (1994)
2. Loop (1991)
3. Facsar (1992)
4. Prestissimo con sordino (1994)
5. Lamento (1994)
6. Chaconne chromatique (1994)
Commissioned by
Stadt Gütersloh / Festival d´Automne, Paris / South Bank Centre, London
Premiere information
2. Loop: 18 November 1991, Vienna; Garth Knox (vla.)
3. Facsar: 28 March 1993, Genf; Jürg Dähler (vla.)
The complete Sonata: 23 April 1994, Gütersloh, Germany; Tabea Zimmermann (vla.)
Publisher / Source
Schott Music, Mainz © 2001, ED 8374
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1 min. sample
1 1. Hora lungǎ
2 2. Loop
3 3. Facsar
4 4. Prestissimo con sordino
5 6. Chaconne chromatique
Remarks, other info
Composed: 1991 - 1994
 

Recordings

Title Publisher
György Ligeti Edition 7 - Chamber Music Sony
BIS Records
Harmonia Mundi
Disques Montaigne
Disques Montaigne
Cadenza
Music of Today - Musical Creation since 1945 Harmonia Mundi
BMC Records