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At the end of the 18th century, the French cellist and composer Jean-Baptiste Bréval wrote not only virtuosic concertos for his instrument, but also more accessible sonatas and duets that remain essential works in the cello pedagogical repertoire. His Sonata in C major, Op. 40 No. 1 opens with impressive chords and offers beginner cellists the opportunity to explore beautiful melodies and master smaller shifts in position.
Daniel Gottlob Türk (1750-1813) served as the director of music at Halle University. He wrote the most influential keyboard tutor of its time, the monumental Klavierschule. To accompany this seminal work, Türk also composed two books of practical pieces.
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.
