Romance, Op. 9
- Instrumentation
- Cello, Piano
- Publisher
- Adolf Bösendorfer, Vienna (1872)
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About this piece
A one-movement Romance in F major (Moderato) for cello with piano accompaniment, published by Adolf Bösendorfer in Vienna in 1872 and dedicated to Count François Gatterburg; the publisher also sold a version for piano alone. The cello's legato song melody runs over rippling piano figuration, with a more urgent chromatic middle section marked 'accel. con espres.' before the opening returns, and the piece closes quietly on a low held F. It is Brukenthal's only work for cello. Her catalogue is mostly songs and church music.
Technical overview
A lyrical, mostly slurred melody in first to fourth positions with dotted rhythms, a chromatic middle section and simple open fifths in the last bars. The 1872 part writes the upper register in the old treble clef that sounds an octave lower, so students may need it explained or rewritten.
Technical focus
- Legato
- Shifting
- Dotted Rhythms
- Accidentals
- Hairpin Dynamics
- Tempo Changes
- Double Stops