d'Albert Violin Concerto (unfinished)

Started by Alan Howe, Tuesday 26 June 2018, 06:03

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Alan Howe

The video introduction to d'Albert: https://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=7639
includes this section:

<<So anyway, there's a lot to explore with d'Albert. One particular area that I'm interested in but I won't have any examples of this because it's an unfinished work, it's Violin Concerto, and we have a score and a part. And what's interesting to me about this is that this is the last page of the score. It has that, you can see the solo violin line. It's five lines up from the bottom. But that's precisely where the part begins. So, you have the actual complete work from the part to the end. And then the score up to the beginning of the part. So it's just begging to be finished by somebody. And I don't know if we'll have time, but I think it would be a fun thing to do. But it's also, there's enough material, it also makes me think that well this was making a fair copy. This is the kind of guesswork that you can kind of come up with when you're looking at these things. He was making a copy of it, and it just didn't get finished. Unfortunately now the piece that he probably finished does not seem to exist in any whole form. But maybe somewhere there is the rest of it.>>

https://stream-media.loc.gov/webcasts/captions/2016/160223mus1200.txt

Alan Howe

The section of the video on the VC begins at around 17:10. The work appears to be in one movement.