Sonate A-Dur (FRANCK CESAR)

for piano and violin-Pioneering new Urtext edition.Informative text on the genesis and reception history of the sonata and its versions (Ger/Fr/Eng).Two small individual movements for Violin and Piano published for the first time.Detailed Critical Commentary (Eng).Cesar Franck’s Sonata For Piano And Violin is one of the most treasured works in the Violin repertoire a masterpiece of cyclic form with a gracefulness and expressive force almost paradigmatic for the age of musical Romanticism. This work was composed in 1886 and was dedicated to the Belgian violinist and composer Eugène Ysaÿe.Franck’s correspondenceproves that he was directly involved in the printing of the sonata. Consequently Barenreiter's scholarly performing edition draws mainly on the first edition of the separate Violin part. For the Piano part the first edition of the version for Violoncello and Piano which appeared during Franck