Jean Balissat
Sinfonietta

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for string orchestra

Duration: 21'
Genre: contemporary
Series: Swiss Composers Series
Composed: 1960

Reference: ORCH56b
CHF48.00
Orchestra score

Details

Published: 2008
Publisher: Editions Bim
Movements:
- I. Largamente - Allegro moderato ma deciso (6'19)
- II. Scherzo (2'40)
- III. Adagio espressivo (7'35)
- IV. Vivo (3'14)

Audio samples

I. Largamente Allegro Moderato Ma Deciso

II. Scherzo

III. Adagio Espressivo

IV. Vivo

Composer

Jean Balissat (1936-2007)

Jean Balissat was born in 1936 in Lausanne (Switzerland), and was drawn straight away to composing and conducting. He studied harmony and counterpoint in Lausanne, before taking composition, orches... Read more

About Sinfonietta

About the Sinfonietta

This work is rather symptomatic of my composing manner: a string orchestra which I use in a most traditional way. No mute effect, no glissandi... The ideas, as well as the procedure of the work are classic. The first movement is an Allegro in Sonata form, the second a Scherzo with one unique theme. The third movement is much more developed: it is an Adagio whose exposition was at the origin planned for a Ballade for viola and orchestra. It remains only the viola theme at the beginning. The last movement is a Rondo. Jean Balissat

Jean Balissat Sinfonietta