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| D | 1946. "Written for May O'DonneU" (the dancer). | |
| M | (a) Ink piano score on 17 masters, paged as above (b) Pencil sketches for movements 1 and 3, 9p | |
| 704 | Sinfonia for Two Violins and Piano 1946 Allegretto - Trio: Poco meno mosso | |
| D | 1946 | |
| M | Pencil draft: holograph only from ml7 in Violin I part, total 73m, plus repeat and D. C.; ml-17 and all of Violin II part are by a copyist. Piano part lacking. | |
| 705 | Sonata for Violin and Piano 1945 (1) Hymn. Largo, with intense tone, pl-3 [ = 674] (2) In fuguing style. Allegro maestoso, p3-10 (3) Ballad. Lento cantabile, pll-13 (4) Jig. Vivace (♩ = 132 or more) - Meno mosso - Tempo I, pl4-17 (5) Finale. Vivace - Allegro non troppo, pi 8-24 | |
| D | 1946. HC to Olive Cowell, 29 May 1945: "I wrote a new violin piece over the weekend [111], one which I had promised for Szigeti." Also to her, 11 Jun 1945: "I finished a Sonata for violin and piano last week?a major work in 4 mvts." Yet on 18 Jan 1946, to Olive and Harry Cowell: "... much to do?finish Violin Sonata." Even that was not the end of it: later in 1946 he added the 5th movement at Szigeti's request. Here, as with certain other works, his caption date obviously is a starting date and not a date of completion. "For Joseph Szigeti" (captions). | |
| F | At one of the Evenings on the Roof, Wilshire Ebell Theater, Los Angeles, 10 Nov 1947, by Sol Babitz (violin) with HC (but note that the work had been published some 5 months earlier). Szigeti had re- quested the Sonata and it is dedicated to him, but he delayed so long getting the piece under his fingers that Babitz in Los Angeles and Madeline Carabo Cone in New York got in ahead of him. It was 6 Feb 1949 before Szigeti, Joseph Levine assisting, finally played the Sonata, in Carnegie Hall, New York. One of the critics made the not unusual mistake of thinking the work was an "adaptation" of an "early-nineteenth-century American work." | |
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