Elegy for Cello in D-flat, Op. 17

Composer: GLAZUNOV, Alexander
  • Glazunov composed his Elégie Op.17 for cello and piano in 1887.1
  • Glazunov dedicated this work in memory of Franz Liszt,2 who had died in 1886. Glazunov had met Liszt in Weimar in 1884.3
    • The score’s dedication reads “Une pensée à François Liszt”4

Sources

  1. Boris Schwarz, “Glazunov, Aleksandr Konstantinovich,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed October 9, 2019, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000011266.
  2. “Elegy, Op. 17 (Glazunov, Aleksandr),” IMSLP, accessed October 9, 2019, https://imslp.org/wiki/Elegy%2C_Op.17_(Glazunov%2C_Aleksandr).
  3. Schwarz, “Glazunov, Aleksandr Konstantinovich,” Grove Music Online.
  4. “Elegy, Op. 17 (Glazunov, Aleksandr),” IMSLP.

Cut IDs

22163