Zigeunerweisen opus 20 pablo de sarasate autobiography
Spanish composer Pablo de Sarasate was born Pablo Martin Melton Sarasate y Navascuez in the the town of Pamplona....
Zigeunerweisen
1878 musical work by Pablo de Sarasate
This article is about the composition.
Zigeunerweisen (), a work for violin and orchestra.
For the film, see Zigeunerweisen (film).
Zigeunerweisen (Gypsy Airs, Spanish: Aires gitanos), Op. 20, is a musical composition for violin and orchestra written in 1878 by the Spanish composerPablo de Sarasate.
It was premiered the same year in Leipzig, Germany. Like his contemporaries, Sarasate misidentified Hungarian folk music with the "gypsy music" of the Romani people, and the themes in the piece are not of Romani origin, but were all actually adapted from Hungarian music pieces: for instance, the third section borrows a melody by Hungarian composer Elemér Szentirmay [de; hu] (1836–1908), and the last section uses a theme from Franz Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No.
13, in the rhythm of the csárdás.[1]
As one of Sarasate's most popular compositions and a favorite among violin virtuosos,[2] the work has remained a staple on records at least sinc