Baeyens: Viola Concerto
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- Composer: August Baeyens (1895-1966)
- Format: Solo Part with Piano Reduction
- Instrumentation (this edition): Piano Reduction, Viola
- Originally for: Viola, Orchestra
- Work: Viola Concerto
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- Size: 9.1 x 12.0 inches
Description
August Louis Baeyens received his musical training at the Royal Flemish Music Conservatory in Antwerp, studying solfège, viola, and harmony. As a composer, Baeyens developed chiefly through the study of composers such as Debussy, Wagner and Strauss; this interest gave him the reputation of a revolutionary within the confines of the very traditionalist conservatory. It makes sense that the first concerto he wrote for a solo instrument was his Concerto for Viola (Concerto voor altviool) in 1956. A recipient of the first prize award for viola while in conservatory, he performed as a violist in orchestras throughout Flanders. The concerto is in three movements: Moderato, Larghetto espressivo, and Allegro.