Complete Works for Solo Viola, BI. 310-322; Alessandro Rolla (Gems Music Publications)

Urtext. Edited by Kenneth Martinson.

Alessandro Rolla (1757-1841) remains one of the most prolific composers of his era, having composed around 45 violin concertos, 22 viola concertos, 131 violin duets, 78 violin-viola duets, and 38 viola duets, trumping by wide margins the output of any composer for all of these genres in all of music history. He also served as the director of La Scala opera and was the founding violin/viola professor at the Milan Conservatory, where he taught Nicolo Paganini. Rolla influenced not only his playing, but his own virtuosic violin writing. This volume represents his complete works for unaccompanied viola: 6 exercises and 7 arrangements of opera melodies (Musica Ridotta)

CONTENTS:

Exercises

• - Intonation in C Major, BI. 310
• - Exercise in E-flat Major, BI. 311
• - Exercise in F Major, BI. 313
• - Intonation in F Major, BI. 312
• - Exercise and Arpeggio in G Major, BI. 314
• - Harmonic Turn, BI. 315

Musica Ridotta

• - Andante from "Guilietta e Romeo", Act III (Vaccai)
• - Andante from "Demetrio e Poliblio", Quartet (Rossini)
• - Romanza e Preghiera from "Otello" (Rossini)
• - Cavatina nel furor delle tempeste from "Il Pirata" (Bellini)
• - Meco tu vieni from "La Straniera" (Bellini)
• - Tu vedrai la sventurata from "Il Pirata" (Bellini)
• - Duetto: Pietosa al Padre from "Il Pirata" (Bellini)