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Charles Hommann
Chamber Music for Strings
Edited by John Graziano and Joanne Swenson-Eldridge
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ISBN 0-89579-411-X |
(1998) xx+161 pp. |
$65.00 |
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ISBN 978-0-89579-411-6
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| A 30P |
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$72.00 |
This volume of the chamber music of Charles Hommann (1803-1872)
offers works published for the first time. Hommann, whose only musical
training took place in the United States, lived in Philadelphia and New
York. As some of the earliest chamber music to be written in this country
by an American-born musician, Hommann's string quartets and string quintet,
which date from no later than 1855, demonstrate how he absorbed the influences
of late eighteenth and early nineteenth century European music to forge
his own unique style. Hommann's skills as a violinist and violist are in
evidence in his part writing; his theory studies with the Parisian-trained
Léopold Meignen (1793-1873) gave him the ability to fashion sophisticated
harmonic progressions. The publication of these chamber works for strings
fills a gap in the knowledge of the music of nineteenth-century America.
Music Sample
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Contents
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String Quartet in G Major; String Quartet in F Major; String Quartet in
D Minor; String Quintet in F-sharp Minor
Parts
vn. 1; vn. 2; va. 1, 2; vc.
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