Editing Strategies for Overcoming Instrumentation Issues in Rebay's Großes Duo in a-Moll

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  • Luiz Mantovani Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina

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https://doi.org/10.33871/23179937.2020.8.3.1.15

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Ferdinand Rebay, Großes Duo in a-Moll, quintbass guitar, performer intervention in the musical text, chamber music

Resumo

This article looks at contextual and interpretive issues surrounding the Großes Duo in a-Moll by Viennese composer Ferdinand Rebay (1880-1953). After situating Rebay within the contemporary guitar developments in Vienna, I contextualize the piece and highlight its significance as a one-of-a-kind Romantic sonata for guitar duo. Next, I look at the potential difficulties of incorporating it into the repertoire of modern guitar duos due to Rebay's use of a near-obsolete instrument, the Quintbass Gitarre, while also offering a brief organological investigation. Finally, I describe in detail my attempts to adapt the piece to the instrumentation of my ensemble, the NOVA Guitar Duo. Backed up by an extensive familiarity with the composer's style, I endeavour to intervene in the text, not only for playability reasons but also to rebalance melodic material in the fashion of traditional guitar duo and domestic Austro-German chamber music writing.

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Luiz Mantovani, Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina

Luiz Mantovani is a professor at Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina - UDESC in Florianópolis, Brazil. He holds a PhD in Musicology from the Royal College of Music in London, a Master of Music and an Artist Diploma in Guitar Performance from the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, and a Bachelor of Music from Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro - UNIRIO. As a performer, he has specialized in chamber music, having performed and recorded internationally with the Brazilian Guitar Quartet and the NOVA Guitar Duo. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7067-966X

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15.12.2020

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Mantovani, L. (2020). Editing Strategies for Overcoming Instrumentation Issues in Rebay’s Großes Duo in a-Moll. Revista Vórtex, 8(3), 1.15. https://doi.org/10.33871/23179937.2020.8.3.1.15

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v. 8 n. 3 (2020): Revista Vórtex

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