ROMANCE OP 37

for Flute or Violin and Piano Accompaniment

Series: Editions Durand
Publisher: Durand
Voicing: Score and Solo Part
Format: Softcover
Composer: Camille Saint-Saens

Saint-Saens completed the Romance in D Flat Major on 25 March 1871. If in his concertos for solo instrument and orchestra Saint-Saens freed himself from the Viennese classical model (reconfiguring it with originality but in the light, certainly, of the formal experimentations of Schumann and of Biedermeier virtuosity), in the Romance opus 37 and other works of similar form (opus 27, 36 and 48) he adopted the Romantic ternary Liedform (A-B-A) - in particular that of Schumann's Stucke and Mendelssohn's Lieder ohne Worte - and transcended the idiomaticity of the respective solo instruments, now interchangeable ad libitum (flute or violin, in the case of opus 37), thereby making the pieces more widely usable and emphasizing their cantabile quality.

Item #: 050565862
UPC: 888680704421
Size: 12"  x  9.25"
Pages: 16
Stock #: HL50565862