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Hommage à Domenico Scarlatti

Composer
Eötvös Péter
Original / Hungarian title
Hommage à Domenico Scarlatti
Foreign language / English title
Hommage à Domenico Scarlatti
Subtitle
For horn soloist and string chamber orchestra
Dedication
to Rainer Schochow
Year of composition
2013
Type
Concerto
Number of players
17
Instrumentation
cor. solo - strings: 5 vl. 1, 4 vl. 2, 3 vla., 3 vlc., cb.
Duration
9 min
Movements, parts
One movement
Premiere information
30 November, 2013, MÜPA, Budapest; Szabolcs Zempléni (cor.), Budapest Strings, Gergely Vajda (cond.)
Publisher / Source
Schott Music GmbH © 2013, 56096
Available here!
Recordings
Live video recording of the premiere, 2013 - Szabolcs Zempléni (cor.), Budapest Strings, Gergely Vajda (cond.) (Available on youtube.com)
1 min. sample
1 Hommage à Domenico Scarlatti
Remarks, other info
"I was led to the music of Domenico Scarlatti by Gabriel Garcia Márquez. In his novel Love and Other Demons, he notes that Scarlatti teaches music to the young heroine Sierva’s mother. I was so taken by the idea of this story that I went and played through all five hundred and fiftyfive of his sonatas; I was unable to tear myself away from this sensitive and dramatic music. I integrated a number of passages into one of the arias in my opera. Hommage à Domenico Scarlatti is an arrangement of this aria in which the tenor line is taken by a solo horn." Peter Eötvös