Sonatina for Harp - Alberto Ginastera
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Ginastera composed the Sonatina for harp in 1938, at age 22. Approximately 10 minutes long, it is written in three short movements: “Preludio,” “Aria,” and “Toccata.”
Dr. Felix Meyer, Director of the Paul Sacher Foundation (holder of Ginastera’s archives), writes the following note in the foreword of the publication:
“In his early years Alberto Ginastera composed several works that were premiered with considerable success, but did not find their way into his official work catalogue. These include the present Sonatina for solo harp from the year 1938. It was given its first performance by Inés Sebastiani in Buenos Aires on 26 June 1939, and was shortly afterwards awarded the Premio Municipal de Música. Despite this success, Ginastera did not make any effort to have the work published, as he was meanwhile occupied with other, more ambitious projects. But nor did he distance himself completely from it. Not only did he show his early Sonatina to several interested harpists, but he explicitly reworked material from its third movement in the Finale of his Harp Concerto op. 25 (1956-65).
“Moreover, in his final years Ginastera undertook a series of corrections and annotations in a manuscript copy in his possession, which suggests that he may have been considering a retrospective publication of the score. Copies of it had in any case long been circulating among musicians, and ‘unofficial’ performances of the Sonatina were not uncommon.”
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840126910353
9781540086716
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