Six morceaux, VWV 3003

• Viardot composed 6 morceaux pour violon et piano in 1866,¹ and the set was published in 1867.²
  • Viardot’s cataloguer Christin Heitmann reports that Ivan Turgenev mentioned these pieces in an 1866 letter:

“Madame Viardot thanks you for your greeting – this winter she has composed a great deal – but this winter, nothing but instrumental music – little pieces for violin and piano. You see, her son Paul is making great progress on the violin.”

Ivan Turgenev, letter to Theodor Storm, Jan. 20, 1866.³

• The composer dedicated this set to her son, Paul Viardot,⁴ who was a violinist. Paul was ten years old when this set was published.⁵

“6 pieces for violin and piano, composed for her son Paul, by Madame Pauline Viardot.”

Title page of Viardot’s 6 morceaux

Contents 

1. Romance  
2. Bohémienne  
3. Berceuse  
4. Mazourke  
5. Vieille chanson  
6. Tarentelle⁶

1. Christin Heitmann: Pauline Viardot. Systematisch-bibliographisches Werkverzeichnis (VWV), Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg, seit 2012, Online-Datenbank https://www.pauline-viardot.de/Werkverzeichnis.htm (21.04.2022), accessed April 21, 2022, https://www.pauline-viardot.de/9Werk.php?werk=4. 
2. “Six Morceaux VWV 3003 (Fassung für Klavier und Violine),” in Christin Heitmann: Pauline Viardot. Systematisch-bibliographisches Werkverzeichnis (VWV), Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg, seit 2012, Online-Datenbank https://www.pauline-viardot.de/Werkverzeichnis.htm , accessed April 21, 2022.
3. Karl Ernst Laage, Theodor Storm und Iwan Turgenjew. Persönliche und literarische Beziehungen, Einflüsse, Briefe, Bilder, Heide (Boysen: 1967), 102-104.
4. Pauline Viardot, 6 morceaux pour piano et violon (Paris: Gérard et Cie, 1867).
5. Beatrix Borchard, “Viardot [née García], (Michelle Ferdinande) Pauline,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed March 10, 2022, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000029283.
6. Viardot, 6 morceaux pour piano et violon.