Twelve Fantasias for Violin: URTEXT EDITION

The Twelve Fantasies for Violin TWV 40:14-25 by the German composer Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767), originally titled XII Fantasie per il Violino senza Basso, may have been in the composer's mind in creating a work for solo violin, it is possible that he knew of some late 17th century works, in particular the Passacaglia by Ignaz Franz von Biber (ca. 1676) and the Six Suites published by Johann Paul von Westhoff (1683 and 1696). Even Telemann himself had published the last movement of the unaccompanied Violin Sonata in a minor (unP IV.2) by his friend Johann Georg Pisendel in an 1729 edition of his musical journal, Der getreue Music-Meister (The Faithful Music-Meister). And he might also have known the unaccompanied violin music of another friend, Johann Sebastian Bach, whose Six Sonatas and Partitas BWV 1001-1006 were composed in 1720. Although the big difference is the exploration of the improvisational idea that the Twelve Fantasies possess, suggesting that Telemann was a violin player of great interpretive ability. But none of these earlier works explores the idea of improvisation on the same level as Telemann's Fantasies.Although the Twelve Fantasies are accessible to accomplished amateurs, they are a challenge for professional violinists with high technical demands, as the style of writing is idiomatic for the violin, as they are a synthesis between the melodious style of Corelli's Italian School and the German polyphonic style, and several of the Fantisias even have fugues.Our main source was the Holograph manuscript of 1735, very well preserved in the Berlin State Library, where it has a text that indicates important information regarding the Fantasias, including the dedication.[cover title:] XII. SOLOS. à. VJOLON. ou. TRAVERSJERE. avec La Basse chiffrée. faits par Telemann A Messieurs, Mr. Rudolfe Burmester. Mr. Jerome Burmester. Mr. Jean Guillaume Burmester. Messieurs, [follows the text of the dedication] Votre tres humble et tres obeissant Serviteur, George Philippe Telemann. A Hambourg, ce 1r de Mars, 1734. [title, f.23r:] XII. Fantasie. per il VJOLJNO. senza Basso. A[nn]o 1735.We have corrected several orthographic errors, completing parts of the text and musical spelling, due to the absence of some indications that are necessary for the interpreter to clearly understand the faithful intention to the composer's idea, we have pointed out in detail these problems with their respective solutions on paper, in addition, we have placed page turns comfortable for reading in the execution and given plenty of space for fingering and bowing annotations.Our book Urtext Roisber Narvaez Verlag always in search of veracity does not make any changes that significantly alter or modify the musical text of the idea or essence of the composer, on the contrary, the editor has added in gray color the possible solutions to differentiate them from the manuscript, and thus, the violin player can make the decision to opt or not by the suggestions offered. Read more