Gypsy Airs, op. 20

Pablo Sarasate (1844-1908): Aires gitanos, opus 20, para violín y piano (Zigeunerweisen). Urtext

Urtext Edition with marked and unmarked string part

Edición de / Edited by: Ernst-Günter Heinemann.

Con parte de violín adicional anotada por / With supplementary violin part marked by: Ingolf Turban.

Following Paganini?s death, numerous musicians strove to assume his position as the "devil?s violinist", but none of them were able to do so as convincingly as the Spaniard Pablo de Sarasate. His unique violin technique enthralled the public right from the start. So it was no surprise that Sarasate composed highly virtuosic pieces for his own use. Composed in 1877, the "Gypsy Airs" are in the form of a broadly conceived Hungarian Csárdás, exhibiting all of the refinement of breakneck violin playing. They still present a challenge to all great violinists. We were able to win over a modernday sorcerer of the violin for our Urtext edition: Ingolf Turban, who provided fingerings and bowings.

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Vorwort / Preface / Préface

Zigeunerweisen, opus 20 (1878)

Bemerkungen / Comments