Pauline Viardot Romance for Violin
Ulf Schneider (violin) and Stephan Imorde (piano) perform Romance, the first of Pauline ViardotGarcia s 6 Morceaux pour piano et violon, dedicated to her son Paul and first published in Paris in 1867. Pauline Viardot, sister of La Malibran, was herself a very successful opera singer and close friend of both Chopin and George Sand. Brahms wrote his Alto Rhapsody for her, and in later years she became friendly with many upcoming composers including Tchaikovsky and Fauré, . She owned the original manuscript
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