Thread: don't forget the viola!

Long time without nobody discussing the viola. So, I proposse one of my little games:

1) Name one famous 19th,cent.violinist and composer, who wrote some of the most
important works for the viola in his time

2) Name a certain russian 19th.cent.composer who left an importante sonata for viola
and piano. Almost never played

3) Name a certain russian composer who lived between the 19th.and the 20th.cent.,who
composed for the viola. His name isn't russian at all.

4) Name a very famous modern composer who left only the viola part of a viola concerto, completed by another guy.

5) Name 2 composers,well known but not too famous, who left important works for solo
viola.

6) Who played the viola on a SQ which violinist were Joachim and Ernst, and Piatti cello?

7) Ther's a transcription for the viola of the famous Elgar's cello concerto. Who did it?

Enjoy.

YES sir!. Henri Vieuxtemps. And his viola pieces with piano are as important, or more,
than those for violin and piano.

2) Felix Mendelssohnskovitch : Sonata for viola and piano in C minor (1824) ??

Originally Posted by opus67

I think he covered that one in the last quiz.

I think precisely that Mendelssohn was great enough to be in at least two quiz...

Funny, very funny. i'm slightly Alzheimered, but no so as to made the same quiz on 2
different threads.
And opus67, no. Kreisler's transcriptions were only to the violin, his instrument.

I knew Vieuxtemps was the number one. (Indeed he was )

Is Glinka the answer to the second?

I would say the fourth one is Bartok. His viola concerto was firt completed by Peter Bartok and Paul Neubauer. Later on, Tibor Serly made his own completition.

7. Primrose?

About Glinka, you are rigth; he had a viola son. But I was thinking on a much rarer
piece by a composer almost forgotten, as nearly all his chamber or concerto work.
About Bartok, Yes. And is a superb work, as any of that guy
And No, No Primrose. An older violist, who advice Primrose to left the violin and turn
to the viola.

Originally Posted by opus67

7.Albert Sammons

[Confession: I googled just to confirm that Sammons was older than Primrose. I did not check any information that would have immediately given me the answer]

But Sammons was a violinist. Perhaps Lionel Tertius?

YES! But TERTIS mi amigo. No Tertius,which means "tercero".
I see that your 12 years with the jesuits left you latinizated.

Originally Posted by oisfetz

YES! But TERTIS mi amigo. No Tertius,which means "tercero".
I see that your 12 years with the jesuits left you latinizated.

( + ) * =

OK, Time is out:

2) Anton Rubinstein
3) Paul Juon
5) Hindemith and Reger
6) Henrik Wieniawsky

Enough quiz for now. Maybe more later.

Speaking of the viola, heard the 3rd mvt. Rondo of Johann Baptist Vanhal's Viola Sonata No. 5 this morning on the radio.