Études
composer: Jörg Widmann
fingering: Carolin Widmann
Dedication: for Peter Sheppard (Etude I) · für Isabelle Faust (Etude II) · für meine Schwester Carolin (Etude III)
Premiere: 1995 London, South Bank Centre (UK) · Peter Sheppard, violin (World Première of Étude I)
July 9, 2001 Cheltenham (UK) Cheltenham Festival 2001 · Isabel Faust, violin (World Première of Étude II)
May 9, 2003 Witten, Festsaal (D) Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik 2003 · Carolin Widmann, Violine (World Première of Étude III)
Instrumentation: violin
Publisher: Schott Music
Duration: 21' 0''
Year of composition: 1995/2001/2002
Volume number: Heft 1 (I-III)
Difficulty: very difficult
Series: Violin Library
32 Pages - Saddle stitching
ISMN: 979-0-001-13597-9
Order number: VLB 108
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Description
Widmann's Études für Violine solo are in the tradition of Paganini's Capricen or the piano études by Chopin, Liszt and Ligeti: artistically autonomous concert pieces on one specific technical problem each, to be performed individually or in a cyclical sequence. The composer wrote about the present volume 1: ' 'Étude' is taken literally here as a compositional exercise, as a restricted experimental ground, but also as a violinistic study on a certain playing technique: for example, I. is some sort of 'sounding out' of the instrument's resonance possibilities, II. goes on a journey from a three-part chorale to spirited, unbridled virtuosity, and III. mainly is a left-hand étude.'
Recordings
Reflections I (2006)
Jörg Widmann- Etudes I-III
- + Boulez, Sciarrino, Ysaÿe
Carolin Widmann (violin)
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