Opus 776

Cavatina (2008)

for Viola and Piano

Duration: 6 min.

Dedication: for Sarah Darling and Jeffrey Grossman / in memoriam Donald Erb

Publisher: Musik Fabrik

Performance materials available from the publisher.

Cavatina (2008) for viola and piano is dedicated to Sarah Darling and Jeffrey Grossman. The score is also inscribed in memory of American composer Donald Erb (1927–2008).

Cavatina (noun, Italian): a simple song or melody, properly one without a second part or a repeat; an air.

This atmospheric work is marked “Very slow, very sad, dream-like.” The landscape is resonant and colorful, as if fragments of a distant song try to assert themselves and then vanish as wisps.