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Violin master works and their interpretation, 1925
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1which leads to the climax, the theme, ff, and the Largamente in the fundamental key of G minor.
2Variation Fifteen, which follows, is of a pronounced passionate character, the only one of its kind in the entire composition:
4Piu vivo, marcato
6and the mood endures until Variation Sixteen, which is played with far greater breadth of tempo and with majestic serenity. Variation Seventeen urges on its triplets in a constantly increasing Piu vivo up to Variation Eighteen, where the tempo gradually becomes quieter until the Piu largo:
8Piu largo
10is reached
11Variation Nineteen at:
13a tempo, ma molto moderato
15introduces the most difficult passage in the composition with regard to tone-production. From this point on there begins, with the softest possible tone, a sustained crescendo twelve measures long, played in a slow tempo by both instruments, the violin and the piano or organ. Little by little it increases in volume of tone until the climaxing point at the fortissimo is reached. Then the theme once more appears and the work concludes with a tremendous rallentando, and a Cadenza on the long-sustained fff double trill.
17Pietro Locatelli (1693-1764), Corelli's pupil, is remembered not so much because of his "L'Arte del Violino," which in addition to twelve concertos contains the "24 Caprices"
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