{"product_id":"12896-enesco-georges-l-aurore-and-piano-concerto-in-d-minor-early-manuscript-sketchleaf","title":"Enesco, Georges. (1881-1955) \"L'Aurore\" and \"Piano Concerto in D minor\" - Early Manuscript Sketchleaf","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;\"\u003eLarge and detailed early manuscript sketchleaf from the Romanian violinist and composer, whom Pablo Casals considered \"one of the greatest geniuses of modern music.\"  Dated December 28, 1897, when Enesco was only sixteen, the leaf shows evidence of several works in progress: after writing the title, parts, key and time signatures for the first movement of his piano concerto in D minor (which was never finished), the young composer has turned the sheet and used the lines in the other direction to sketch a work for choir and orchestra, probably his 1898 cantata \"L'Aurore.\"  The last forty-three measures of a movement in 9\/8 time are written, with indications for choir, horns, and trombone, and further notes such as \"immense buzzing in the orchestra,\" as well as a French text which deals with pastoral themes.  The movement ends with a fermata and double bar.  After this, Enesco has signed and written in French, \"Composed entirely in the evening of December 28, 1897, from half past nine to half past twelve.\"  The young Romanian was studying in Paris at the time; in February 1898 he would present his first mature work, the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;\"\u003ePoema Română.\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;\"\u003eOn the verso, three further compositional sketch fragments likely from the Piano Concerto: one \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;\"\u003eof 20 measures\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;\"\u003e for a sparse piano texture in B minor; one of 16 measures (with the last 4 crossed out) of an orchestral reduction showing successive entrances of viola, cello, second violin, first violin, and flute and oboe; and one of 19 measures with one, two, and then three voices in 9\/8 over an ostinato bass in A minor in 3\/4.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;\"\u003eOne large horizontal crease with slight tears on each side; chipping and wear to the edges; otherwise a very legible manuscript in fine condition. 27 x 35 cm.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;\"\u003eEnescu was born in the village of \u003cspan style=\"background-image: none; background-position: initial;\"\u003eLiveni,\u003c\/span\u003e today \u003cspan style=\"background-image: none; background-position: initial;\"\u003eBotoşani County\u003c\/span\u003e. A \u003cspan style=\"background-image: none; background-position: initial;\"\u003echild prodigy\u003c\/span\u003e, he began experimenting with composing at an early age. \u003cspan style=\"unicode-bidi: isolate;\"\u003e On 5 October 1888, at the age of seven, he became the youngest student ever admitted to the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"unicode-bidi: isolate; background-image: none; background-position: initial;\"\u003eVienna Conservatory\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"unicode-bidi: isolate;\"\u003e,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"unicode-bidi: isolate;\"\u003e where he studied with \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"unicode-bidi: isolate; background-image: none; background-position: initial;\"\u003eJoseph Hellmesberger, Jr.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"unicode-bidi: isolate;\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"unicode-bidi: isolate; background-image: none; background-position: initial;\"\u003eRobert Fuchs\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"unicode-bidi: isolate;\"\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"unicode-bidi: isolate; background-image: none; background-position: initial;\"\u003eSigismund Bachrich\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"unicode-bidi: isolate;\"\u003e. He was the second person ever admitted to this university by a dispensation of age, after only \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"unicode-bidi: isolate; background-image: none; background-position: initial;\"\u003eFritz Kreisler\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"unicode-bidi: isolate;\"\u003e (in 1882, also at the age of seven), and the first non-Austrian.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.42857; background-image: none; background-position: initial;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.42857;\"\u003eEnescu then studied from 1895 to 1899 at the\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.42857;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.42857; background-image: none; background-position: initial;\"\u003eConservatoire de Paris\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.42857;\"\u003e. André Gedalge said that he was \"the only one [among his students] who truly had ideas and spirit.\"  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.42857;\"\u003eMany of Enescu's works were influenced by Romanian folk music, his most popular compositions being the two\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.42857;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.42857; background-image: none; background-position: initial;\"\u003eRomanian Rhapsodies\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.42857;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.42857;\"\u003e(1901–2), the opera\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.42857;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.42857; background-image: none; background-position: initial;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eŒdipe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.42857;\"\u003e(1936), and the suites for orchestra.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.42857;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.42857;\"\u003eHe also wrote five symphonies (two of them unfinished), a\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.42857;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.42857; background-image: none; background-position: initial;\"\u003esymphonic poem,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.42857;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.42857; background-image: none; background-position: initial;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eVox maris\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.42857;\"\u003e, and much chamber music.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093500645535,"sku":"12896","price":4500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Enesco_Georges_Sketchleaf_12896_001.jpg?v=1722188438","url":"https:\/\/www.schubertiademusic.com\/products\/12896-enesco-georges-l-aurore-and-piano-concerto-in-d-minor-early-manuscript-sketchleaf","provider":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}