CMP 1640
Solo for cello accompanied by piano.
Grade 4. Approx. duration: four minutes.
Set includes a piano score and one part.
Composed for cello and piano in 1898, this work was heard for many years in versions other than its original. For example, in November, 1903, it was performed in São Paulo, in unison, by a nine-member group of violin students. The following year, as part of music festival in Rio de Janeiro, it was performed by a string orchestra accompanied by piano and organ. Seven years later, it was performed in São Paulo’s San José Theater by an orchestra that included faculty members of that city’s Conservatório Dramático e Musical. Though never explicitly stated, these versions were likely created expressly by the composer for the specific purposes mentioned above.
Consequently, it was not until May 19, 1915, when the original version was premiered by cellist Dr. Rubens Tavares and his sister, pianist Heloisa Tavares, during a reception held in Rio de Janeiro. On this same program, the two also performed the third movement of Chopin’s Cello Sonata, op. 65, and the second movement of French composer Daniël van Goens‘ Two Pieces for Cello and Piano, op. 12.
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