Symphony Espagnole
Symphonie espagnole op. 21 is a work by the French composer Édouard Lalo for violin and orchestra in D minor .
General
Although the piece is called a symphony , it is actually a violin concerto . It is by far Lalo's most famous work.
The concert is dedicated to Pablo Sarasate and was premiered by him in Paris in 1875 .
Tchaikovsky's pupil Josef Kotek played the piece for him in Clarens in March 1878 . This inspired Tchaikovsky to write his Violin Concerto in D major .
To the music
The work consists of five movements :
- Allegro non troppo
- Scherzando: Allegro molto
- Intermezzo: Allegretto non troppo
- Andante
- Rondo: Allegro
Although the piece does not have any concrete Spanish elements, it has rhythmic, dance-like and virtuoso characteristics that make the work sound typically Spanish to the listener.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Édouard Lalo | French composer. Retrieved January 25, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Feil, Arnold .: Metzler-Musik-Chronik: from the early Middle Ages to the present . Metzler, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-476-00929-7 , pp. 623 .
- ↑ Riggs, Robert: The violin . Rochester 2016, ISBN 978-1-58046-506-9 , pp. 177 .