Cantabile, Op. 13
- Instrumentation
- Cello, Piano
- Publisher
- K. Trepte, Warsaw (censor's date 22 March 1902; series 'Compositions pour violoncelle ou violon avec piano', No. 3); scan: Biblioteka Narodowa, Mus.III.104.120
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About this piece
Maria Witkowska-Jabłońska was a Warsaw composer active in the early 1900s about whom almost nothing else is known. Her Cantabile, Op. 13 was published by Konstanty Trepte around 1902 as one of a series of thirteen pieces for cello or violin with piano, and the cello is the instrument named on the printed part. It is a slow song in 3/4 marked Andante maestoso, in B-flat minor with a warmer major-key middle section. The original edition is a free public-domain scan in Polona.
Technical overview
Bass clef throughout, in B-flat minor and D-flat major with many accidentals. The melody climbs through 1st to 4th position up to F above the staff, with 2- and 3-note slurs, a trill, a grace note, tenuto and portato markings, and hairpin dynamics from pp to f.
Technical focus
- 2 Note Slurs
- 3 Note Slurs
- Accidentals
- Collaboration with Piano
- Dynamics
- Grace Notes
- Hairpin Dynamics
- Legato
- Portato
- Shifting
- Tempo Changes