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In Memoriam (Yizkor) 

for unaccompanied violin

Duration:

4 minutes
 

Instrumentation:   

violin solo
 

Year Composed:  

2023

​SOLO VIOLIN MUSIC

MUSIC FOR UNACCOMPANIED VIOLIN

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 solo violin (a version for viola 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 Violin (Unaccompanied Violin)

  • Béla Bartók (1881-1945): Sonata for Solo Violin, Sz. 117, BB 124 (1944) (solo violin)

  • Paul Ben-Haim (1897-1984):

  • Sonata for Solo Violin in G, Op. 44 (1951) (solo violin)

  • Three Studies for Violin (1981) (solo violin)

  • Grazyna Bacewicz (1909-1969):

  • Caprice Polonais (Polish Caprice) (1949) (solo violin)

  • Sonata for Solo Violin No. 1 (1941) (solo violin)

  • Sonata for Solo Violin No. 2 (1958) (solo violin)

  • Luciano Berio (1925-2003): Sequenza VIII for Solo Violin (1976) (solo violin)

  • Elliott Carter (1908-2012): Four Lauds (1999-2000) (solo violin)

  • Chen Yi (b. 1953): Fishermen's Song (1988) (solo violin)

  • John Corigliano (b. 1937): The Red Violin Caprices (1997) (solo violin)

  • Luigi Dallapiccola (1904-1975): Ciaccona, Intermezzo e Adagio (1945) (solo violin)

  • Edison Denisov (1929-1996): Sonata for Violin Solo (1978) (solo violin)

  • Brett Dean (b. 1961): Demons (2004) (solo violin)

  • Augusta Read Thomas (b. 1964): Incantations (1999) (solo violin)

  • Philip Glass (b. 1937): Partita for Solo Violin (2010/11) (solo violin)

  • Hans Werner Henze (1926-2012): Violin Sonata (1946) (solo violin)

  • Paul Hindemith (1895-1963):

  • Sonata for Solo Violin, Op. 31 No. 1 (1924) (solo violin)

  • Sonata for Solo Violin, Op. 31 No. 2 (1924) (solo violin)

  • Nicolaus A. Huber (b. 1939): ...aus Schmerz und Trauer... (1982/83) (solo violin)

  • Isang Yun (1917-1995): Königliches Thema (Royal Theme) (1976) (solo violin)

  • Kaija Saariaho (1952-2023): Frises (2011) (solo violin)

  • Salvatore Sciarrino (b. 1947): Capricci (1976) (solo violin)

  • Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998): A Paganini (1982) (solo violin)

  • Mauricio Kagel (1931-2008): Solo (1971) (solo violin)

  • Jessie Montgomery (b. 1981): Rhapsody No. 1 (2014) (solo violin)

  • Anna Clyne (b. 1980): Rest These Hands (2014) (solo violin)

  • Jörg Widmann (b. 1973): Etudes for Solo Violin (Book I and II) (2004-2013) (solo violin)

  • George Rochberg (1918-2005): Caprice Variations (1970) (solo violin)

  • Eugène Ysaÿe (1858-1931): Six Sonatas for Solo Violin, Op. 27 (1923) (solo violin)

  • No. 2 "Jacques Thibaud"

  • No. 3 "Georges Enescu" ("Ballade")

  • No. 4 "Fritz Kreisler"

  • No. 6 "Manuel Quiroga"

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