Midori, Violin Ieva Jokubaviciute, Piano Friday, May 28 – 6 PM American Philosophical Society PROGRAM
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PREVIEW NOTES Midori, violin Ieva Jokubaviciute, piano Friday, May 28 – 6 PM American Philosophical Society PROGRAM Sonatina in G Major, Op. 100 By the summer of 1781 Mozart's circumstances had Antonín Dvořák undergone a considerable change. Neither Paris nor Born: September 8, 1841, Nelahozeves, Czech. Mannheim had provided him with honourable court Died: May 1, 1904, Prague, Czech. employment, but Salzburg remained depressingly narrow, while his employer, Archbishop Hieronymus von Colloredo, Composed: 1893 had always proved intensely unsympathetic to Mozart's Duration: 20 minutes aspirations. Finally, in June 1781, during the course of a visit by the Archbishop and members of his household to Vienna, If the "New World" Symphony, Op. 95, and the "American" Mozart secured his dismissal, unofficially, ignominiously but String Quartet, Op. 95, are the best-known products of effectively. He proceeded to try to establish himself in the Antonín Dvořák's years in the United States, the little Sonatina Imperial capital in independence, relying on the fickle tastes in G major for violin and piano, Op. 100 -- sometimes called and loyalties of the Viennese public. The Sonata in F Major, K. the "Indian Lament" Sonatina -- may well be the most obscure; 376, was the early fruit of this independence and was yet it is a charming work that deserves better than its published, together with the C Major Mannheim Sonata and relegation to the learning books of young violinists. The four other sonatas for clavier and violin in Vienna in December Sonatina is in four movements: Allegro risoluto, Larghetto, 1781, described by the publisher Artaria as the composer's Scherzo (molto vivace), and Allegro. The first movement's Opus 11. principal tune has a firm rhythmic spine, its second tune a gentle plaintiveness; there is just a hint of American folk music Quintet in E-flat Major, Op. 97 in the movement -- a light syncopation here, a modal Johannes Brahms inflection there, a pentatonic scale there. The following Born: May 7, 1833, Hamburg, Germany Larghetto earned the Sonatina the nickname "Indian Lament." Died: April 3, 1897, Vienna, Austria The succession of its three melodies -- one in G minor, one in Composed: 1886-1888 B flat major, and one in G Major -- has to it the same Duration: 22 minutes wistfulness, and the same sudden brightening and then softening of mood, that we hear in the famous slow Johannes Brahms began his Sonata for piano and violin No. 3 movement of the "New World" Symphony. The Allegro finale in D Minor, Op. 108, almost immediately after finishing the is a substantial sonata-allegro movement, with three Sonata No. 2 in A Major, Op. 100, during a vacation in wonderful themes to claim as its own: the opening, Switzerland in the summer of 1886, but he set the work aside syncopated idea in G Major, a subsidiary thought in E minor, for two years and completed it only when he returned there very dancelike and built around a repeating marcato cell, and in 1888 for another vacation. The two works are in fact utterly finally a rich tranquillo melody that closes the exposition. different from one another: the A Major Sonata is easygoing and radiates with warm melody from start to finish, while the Violin Sonata in F Major, K. 376 D Minor Sonata is an athletic, fibrous, and at times even Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart nervous affair that offers drama of a far more epic nature. Born: January 27, 1756, Salzburg, Austria Brahms dedicated the Sonata No. 3 to Hans von Bülow, Died: December 5, 1791, Vienna, Austria pianist, conductor, friend, and champion of the composer; it Composed: 1781 was first performed by Brahms and violinist Jenö Hubay in Duration: 17 minutes Budapest on December 22, 1888. .