Fuchs: Evensong
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- Composer: Kenneth Fuchs (1956-)
- Format: Set of Performance Scores
- Instrumentation: Horn, Guitar
- Work: Evensong (2010)
- ISBN:
- Size: 9 x 12.0 inches
- Pages: 16
Description
From the composer: Evensong was composed at the request of my friend David Wick, principal hornist of the Virginia Symphony Orchestra. He asked that I compose a recital piece for him to play with the orchestra's music director, JoAnn Falletta, who is also a virtuoso guitarist. The only stipulation he made was that the work include fragments of one of his favorite melodies, "Lasst mich alle", from Four Songs , Op. 82, by Antonín Dvořák. The melody is also quoted in the Adagio movement of Dvořák's Cello Concerto in B Minor, Op. 104, B. 191. The music is absolute in nature and cast in the form of a single movement fantasy based loosely on Dvořák's melody, which is stated at the outset and at the conclusion.
