Sonatine De Giverny For piccolo and piano by Daniel Dorff Chamber Music - Sheet Music

SKU: PR.114410880

ISBN 9781598063165. UPC: 680160015733. 9 x 12 inches.

Commissioned by the Piccolo Committee of the NFA for premiere by Jan Gippo whose comment reads the first composition for piccolo and piano that is in the great tradition of Ravel's French School.
PROGRAM NOTES BY THE COMPOSERWhen Jan Gippo invited me to compose a recital piece for a premiere at NFA 2000, I felt right away that it should be a somewhat neo-classical sonatina, perhaps with some French flavor. (Perhaps I was under the influence of the great piccolo solo opening Ravel’s piano concerto.)By happy coincidence, I visited Paris for the first time a few months later and spent a day in nearby Giverny at the estate of Claude Monet, the painter whose work inspired the term “impressionism.” As I saw the ravishing flowers, peaceful water gardens, and charming village, it became clear that the inspiration for the piccolo sonatina was falling into place. Sonatine de Giverny captures my experience seeing what Monet saw and is a musical setting of Giverny in our lifetime, not of Monet’s paintings. Giverny is carefully preserved to look just as it did 100 years ago, so there is a fascinating and almost eerie blend of old and new.Les fleurs ravissantes depicts the brilliant, ravishing flowers in the upper garden near Monet’s house, with bright poppies and other loud plants interrupted by countless colorful butterflies and tiny flowers creating a ripply visual texture which certainly influenced Monet’s work. Les jardins d’eaux reflects the profound calm at the lower water garden which Monet created, with its famous Japanese footbridges, weeping willows, and water lilies. The photos of the water garden on the cover of this publication were taken by me in 1999 but they appear timeless. En ville leaves Monet’s estate to capture the bubbling charm of the rural towns of Giverny and nearby Vernon.