Description

The Sarabanda for violin and piano (P015a) is a brief composition spanning three pages, dated 1897, and is published for the first time here. The original manuscript resides in the private collection of Potito Pedarra, who catalogs Ottorino Respighi’s works. Respighi created this piece during his early years, coinciding with the composition of the Sonata in D minor (1897, P015), Giga (P015b), and Allegretto vivace (P015c), all for violin and piano. In 1898, he transposed the Sarabanda to F major to include it in the Suite per pianoforte (P022, unedited). Elements of the Sarabanda's theme can be identified in the Grave (Tempo di Sarabanda) of the second section of the unedited ballet Le Astuzie di Colombina (Scherzo veneziano), composed in 1920 (P130, unedited). The autograph manuscript contains several posthumous annotations that are not reflected in this edition.