Informationen zu "Domenico Dragonetti and Edouard Nanny Ed: Heyes Concerto in A major Double Bass & Piano"
Verlag: Recital Music
Verlagsnummer: RM558
EAN: 9790570455584
ISMN: M-57045-558-4
Beschreibung
SOLO TUNING See RM722 for Orchestral Tuning The 'Dragonetti Concerto' was
first published in 1925 by Alphonse Leduc in Paris as No.23 of Edouard
Nanny's 'Les Classiques de la Contrebasse'. For many years no one questioned
its authenticity, but as more research into Dragonetti's original works for
double bass was made, concerns began to arise. Many of Dragonetti manuscripts
survive in the British Library, thanks to Vincent Novello who donated them in
1849, three years after Dragonetti's death and on Novello's retirement to
Italy, but there is no original manuscript for this work. As bassists began
to edit and perform a wide range of Dragonetti's works it became clear that
this concerto bore little resemblance to any of his other pieces. The work
does, however, have many similarities to Nanny's Concerto for double bass,
also to his other solo works and even studies from his Method. Eventually
most people came to the conclusion that this work is not an original work by
the great Venetian bassist but is by Edouard Nanny, and in the style of the
late 18th-century. Having said that, this is still a charming and evocative
work which has much player and audience appeal and is very easy on the ears.
Many of the challenges for the soloist are technical and, almost a century
after its first publication, it is still as popular as ever. Published in
1925, the first movement was performed at London's Wigmore Hall on 15 April
the following year by Victor Watson (double bass) and Sidney Crooke (piano),
and was described a 'Contrabass Concerto by Dragonetti-Nanny. ERRATA: Piano
part: page 8 (1st movement), bar 87 - final chord of bar in right hand should
be D/E/G# - a dominant 7th chord in A major Edouard Nanny was an important
French double bassist and teacher, also composing and transcribing many works
for double bass. He was born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye on 24 March 1872 and he
studied at the Paris Conservatoire with Professor Verrimst, also teaching
there from 1920-1940. He performed often as a soloist, also working as an
orchestral bassist with many orchestras such as the Paris Symphony Orchestra,
Concerts Lamoureux and the Orchestra de l'Opera Comique, and in 1901 he
founded the Henry Casadeus Society of Old Instruments, chaired by Camille
Saint-Saens, and intended to revive the works from the past centuries.
Nanny's Method for double bass is still in print, over 90 years since its
first publication and both volumes contain a wealth of excellent technical
studies and exercises which are as relevant today as they were in the 1920s.
His other volumes of studies are mostly out of print and Recital Music plan
to reprint some of his orginal works for double bass, transcriptions and
educational music to keep alive the name of Edouard Nanny into the
21st-century. Edouard Nanny died in Paris in 1942.
