JAVS Summer 2018

Composer : Movements :

Polo, Enrico (1868–1953)

1 and 2

Editions :

Milan: Ricordi, 1935, E.R. 1762. (Edited and with a piano reduction by Enrico Polo.)

Note : Enrico Polo was an Italian violinist and composer who served as Professor of Violin at the Milan Conservatory. e edition describes this as a “free arrangement,” 5 and Polo has made substantial changes to the work. More than 75% of the solo viola’s measures have some type of alteration, including deletions and insertions of sections as well as the elimination of the nal rondo statement in the third movement.

Details : Mvmt. I: 34 measures

Mvmt. II: 31 measures

Recordings :

Katims, Milton : Mvmt. II (with very slight modi cations)

Composer : Movements :

Primrose, William (1904–1982) / Paul Klengel (1854–1935)

1 and 2

Editions :

New York: G. Schirmer, 1979, 47974c. (Edited and with a piano reduction by William Primrose.)

Note : William Primrose was a Scottish-American viola soloist who held teaching posts at the Curtis Institute of Music, University of Southern California, Indiana University, and Brigham Young University. Primrose’s edition does not identify the composer of the cadenzas, but they are reworkings of Paul Klengel’s, with the second-movement cadenza being essentially the same. In his edition, Primrose made minor alterations to Stamitz’s music in movements I and II. In movement III, he eliminated the rondo theme at m. 93 and added a return to mm. 16–45 toward the end of the concerto, resulting in an ABACDABA form. He made additional alterations to the third movement, including incorporating some changes from Klengel’s edition.

Details : Mvmt. I: 26 measures

Mvmt. II: 16 measures

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