Chamber music
String instruments
1977
Sonata for violin solo
Period of composition 1976-77
Revised version 1992
Duration 14 minutes
Dedicated to Salvatore Sciarrino
I Tirsi
II Mopso
III Aristeo
World premiere
World premiere 10. August 1977
Montepulciano · 2° Cantiere Internazionale d’Arte
Violin Jenny Abel
Comments
This piece concerns the three shepherds in the prologue of the “Favola d’Orfeo” (1480) by Angelo Ambrogini, known as Politian. Its final movement describes the death of Euridice, of which the shepherds are the cause.
Hans Werner Henze