The Friday Miscellanea for September 8 had the most comments. Wenatchee advocates for the neglected guitar composer Matiegka:
It took months of work but tonight I finished the 31 page (10,272 words not counting the heavily annotated score that IMSLP made available) analysis of Matiegka's Op. 17 Sonate progressive. It's picking up where the series started with Op. 16 back in July. Shameless self plug for that post ...
https://wenatcheethehatchet.blogspot.com/2023/07/an-analysis-of-matiegkas-op-16-sonate.html
This year's the 250th anniversary of Matiegka's birth/baptism so I figured this is "the" year to do a really deep dive into how he handled sonata forms and what he did in his solo guitar sonatas.
https://wenatcheethehatchet.blogspot.com/2023/09/an-analysis-of-matiegkas-op-17-sonate.html
Discussion of Matiegka continues...
To demonstrate what the fuss is about, here is the Andante movement from his Sonata, op. 17:
Hi Bryan
ReplyDeleteA little something else from a heretofore "neglected" composer... As promised, here's a link to a recording of my entry in the California Festival of new music. "Unspoken Water"
https://soundcloud.com/user-525724510/unspoken-water-sor-1118
enjoy :)
Jeff
Fantastic, Jeff. Looking forward to hearing it.
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