Jean Balissat
Sinfonietta
for string orchestra
- Duration: 21'
- Genre: contemporary
- Series: Swiss Composers Series
- Composed: 1960
Reference: ORCH56b
Orchestra score
Orchestra score
CHF48.00
- 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)
- I. Largamente - Allegro moderato ma deciso (6'19)
I. Largamente Allegro Moderato Ma Deciso
II. Scherzo
III. Adagio Espressivo
IV. Vivo
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...
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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