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UNACCOMPANIED VIOLA MUSIC

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In Memoriam (Yizkor) 

for unaccompanied viola

Duration:

4 minutes
 

Instrumentation:   

viola solo
 

Year Composed:  

2023

Premiere Performance: 
Bernardo Di Marco, viola
4 April 2025
Córdoba, Argentina
 

UNACCOMPANIED VIOLA MUSIC

MUSIC FOR UNACCOMPANIED VIOLA

THEMES:

REMEMBRANCE

Out of respect for the subject's sensitivity, the sheet music for In Memoriam is provided at no cost.

Program Notes:

In Memoriam (Yizkor) is a work for unaccompanied viola (a version for violin is also available) that I wrote following the tragic October 7, 2024, terror attack in Israel and the Gaza war that followed.

Related Music:

Selected Repertoire for Solo Viola (Unaccompanied Viola)

  • Ali-Zadeh, Franghiz (b. 1947): "Music for Viola Solo" (1993)

  • Barrett, Richard (b. 1959): codex X (1997)

  • Berio, Luciano (1925-2003): Sequenza VI for Solo Viola (1967)

  • Britten, Benjamin (1913-1976): Elegy (c. 1930)

  • Carter, Elliott (1908-2012): Figment IV (2007)

  • Chen Yi (b. 1953): The Fountains of the Xiang River (1999)

  • Dean, Brett (b. 1961): Wimmera (2009)

  • Dusapin, Pascal (b. 1955): In Nomine (2005)

  • Gubaidulina, Sofia (b. 1931): Sonata for Solo Viola (1996)

  • Henze, Hans Werner (1926-2012): Serenade (1949)

  • Hersch, Michael (b. 1971): a line from a poem (2016)

  • Hindemith, Paul (1895-1963): Sonata for Solo Viola (1937)

  • Hindemith, Paul (1895-1963): Sonata for Solo Viola, Op. 11 No. 5 (1919)

  • Hindemith, Paul (1895-1963): Sonata for Solo Viola, Op. 25 No. 1 (1922)

  • Huber, Klaus (1924-2017): Lamentationes (1993)

  • Jolas, Betsy (b. 1926): Quatre Études (2006)

  • Knox, Garth (b. 1956): Viola Spaces (various pieces, from 2005 onwards)

  • Kurtág, György (b. 1936): Signs, Games and Messages (Jelek, op. 5) (various periods)

  • Ligeti, György (1923-2006): Sonata for Solo Viola (1991-94)

  • Lindberg, Magnus (b. 1958): Étude I (1992)

  • Maderna, Bruno (1920-1973): Viola (1971)

  • Martin, Frank (1890-1974): Étude (1955)

  • Mazzoli, Missy (b. 1980): Dissolve, O My Heart (2010)

  • Milhaud, Darius (1892-1974): Sonatine for Viola Solo, Op. 336 (1961)

  • Mumford, Jeffrey (b. 1955): Wending (1990)

  • Navok, Lior (b. 1971): In Memoriam (Yizkor) (2023)

  • Reger, Max (1873-1916): Three Suites for Solo Viola, Op. 131d (1915)

  • Resanovic, Nicola (b. 1955): Sonata for Solo Viola "Invention of the Unwritten" (2000)

  • Rihm, Wolfgang (b. 1952): Über die Linie III (1975)

  • Rochberg, George (1918-2005): Viola Sonata (1979)

  • Rautavaara, Einojuhani (1929-2016): Sonata for Solo Viola (1973)

  • Scelsi, Giacinto (1905-1988): Coelacanth (1955)

  • Scelsi, Giacinto (1905-1988): Manto per 4 voci (1957)

  • Schnittke, Alfred (1934-1998): Minuet for Solo Viola (1992)

  • Sculthorpe, Peter (1929-2014): Irkanda IV (1961)

  • Shaw, Caroline (b. 1982): in manus tuas (2009)

  • Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971): Elegie (1944)

  • Widmann, Jörg (b. 1973): Etudes for Solo Viola (2019

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