Violin Sonata No. 2 in E minor, Op. 108
Violin and Piano
by Gabriel Faure
Violin Solo - Sheet Music

Strings Piano Accompaniment; Violin (Score and Solo Part) - Henle Level 7

SKU: HL.51481036

Violin and Piano. Composed by Gabriel Faure. Edited by Ernst Schliephake, Fabian Kolb, and Pascal Roge. Sheet Music. Paperbound. Henle Music Folios. With marked and unmarked string parts. Classical. Softcover. 56 pages. G. Henle #HN1036. Published by G. Henle (HL.51481036).

ISBN 9790201810362. UPC: 888680063962. 9.25x12.25x0.28 inches.

Fauré's 2nd Violin Sonata was written in 1916 in Evian and Paris, the first in a series of chamber music works. It is thus one of Fauré late works, characterised by austerity, introspection and the intensity of its expression. It is hard to imagine a greater contrast to the brilliant and ornamental style of the virtuosic 1st Violin Sonata (HN 980), published 40 years earlier. The 2nd Sonata concentrates on the essentials, and on closer contact turns out to be a fascinating composition that harmonically explores the limits of tonality, delving deep into the “modernism” of the 1920s.

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