Cançoneta for Violin and String Orchestra

Composer: RODRIGO, Joaquín
  • Rodrigo composed this work in 1923. It is one of his earliest compositions.1
  • Rodrigo composed this work in Valencia, before he moved away to study in Paris. Due to the Spanish Civil War, he wouldn’t be based in Spain again until 1939.2
  • This piece premiered in 1923 in Valencia, Spain, performed by the Orquesta Sinfónica de Valencia, conducted by José Manuel Izquierdo.3

Sources

  1. Raymond Calcraft, “Rodrigo (Vidre), Joaquín,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed January 8, 2020,  https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000023647.
  2.  Enrique Martínez Miura, trans. Susannah Howe, liner notes to Rodrigo:  Concierto in Modo Galante / Concierto de Estio (Complete Orchestral Works, Vol. 3), Mikhail Ovrutsky, Asier Polo, Castile and Leon symphony Orchestra, Max Bragado Darman, Naxos 8.55840, CD, 2002.
  3.  “Cançoneta (1923),” Joaquín-Rodrigo.com, accessed January 8, 2020, https://www.joaquin-rodrigo.com/index.php/en/instrumentos-solistas-con-orquesta/violin-y-orquesta/item/627-can%C3%A7oneta.

Cut IDs

21673