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Infobox musical artist|name = Pablo Sarasate|image = Sarasate.gif|caption = Pablo de Sarasate|background = non_vocal_instrumentalist|birth_name = Pablo Martín Melitón de Sarasate y Navascués|Born = birth date|1844|3|10|df=y flagicon|Spain|1785 Pamplona , Spain |Died = death date and age|1908|9|20|1844|3|10|df=y flagicon|France|1908 Biarritz , France |genre = Classical music|Classical |occupation = Composer , Conducting|conductor , violinist|years_active = 1852–1904|notable_instruments = Violin Boissier Stradivarius 1713 Sarasate Stradivarius 1724 Pablo Martín Melitón de Sarasate y Navascués (IPA-es|'paßlo sa?a'sate; 10 March 1844 & ndash; 20 September 1908) was a Navarre se Spain|Spanish violin ist and composer of the Romantic music|Romantic period.
Career
Pablo Sarasate was born in Pamplona , Navarre, the son of an artillery bandmaster. He began studying the violin with his father at the age of five and later took lessons from a local teacher but his musical talent became evident early on and he appeared in his first public concert in La Coruña at the age of eight. His performance was well-received, and caught the attention of a wealthy patron who provided the funding for Sarasate to study under Manuel Rodríguez Saez in Madrid where he gained the favor of Queen Isabel II . Later, as his abilities developed, he was sent to study under Jean-Delphin Alard at the Conservatoire de Paris|Paris Conservatoire at the age of twelve. There, at seventeen, Sarasate entered a competition for the Premier Prix and won his first prize, the Conservatoire's highest honour.
Sarasate, who had been playing in public since childhood, made his Paris debut as a concert violinist in 1860, and played in London the following year. Over the course of his career, he toured many parts of the world, performing in Europe , North America , and South America . His artistic pre-eminence was due principally to the purity of his tone, which was free from any tendency towards the sentimental or rhapsodic, and to that impressive facility of execution that made him a virtuoso. In his early career, Sarasate performed mainly opera fantasies, most notably the Carmen Fantasy (Sarasate)|Carmen Fantasy , and various other pieces that he had composed. The popularity of Sarasate's Spanish flavor in his compositions is reflected in the work of his contemporaries. For example, the influences of Spanish music can be heard in such notable works as Édouard Lalo 's Symphonie Espagnole which was dedicated to Sarasate, Georges Bizet 's Carmen , and Camille Saint-Saëns ' Introduction and Rondo capriccioso (Saint-Saëns)|Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso , written expressly for Sarasate and dedicated to him.
Of Sarasate's idiomatic writing for his instrument, the playwright and music critic George Bernard Shaw once declared that though there were many composers of music for the violin, there were but few composers of violin music. Of Sarasate's talents as performer and composer, Shaw said that he "left criticism gasping miles behind him." Sarasate's own compositions are mainly show-pieces designed to demonstrate his exemplary technique (bias shown, needs reference). Perhaps the best known of his works is Zigeunerweisen (1878), a work for violin and orchestra. Another piece, the Carmen Fantasy (1883), also for violin and orchestra, makes use of themes from Georges Bizet's opera Carmen . Probably his most performed encores are his two books of Spanish dances, brief pieces designed to please the listener's ear and show off the performer's talent. He also made arrangements of a number of other composers' work for violin, and composed sets of variations on "potpourris" drawn from operas familiar to his audiences, such as his Fantasia on La forza del destino (his Opus 1), his "Souvenirs of Faust (opera)|Faust ", or his variations on themes from The Magic Flute|Die Zauberflöte . In 1904 he made a small number of recordings. In all his travels Sarasate returned to Pamplona each year for the San Fermín festival.Zdenko Silvela, A New History Of Violin Playing 2001:199. Sarasate died in Biarritz , France on September 20, 1908 from chronic bronchitis. He bequeathed his violin, made by Antonio Stradivari in 1724, to the Cité de la Musique|Musée de la Musique . The violin now bears his name as the Stradivarius|Sarasate Stradivarius in his memory. His second Stradivari violin, the Boissier of 1713, is now owned by Madrid Conservatory|Real Conservatorio Superior de Música, Madrid . Among his violin pupils was Alfred De Sève . The Pablo Sarasate International Violin Competition is held in Pamplona.
A number of works for violin were dedicated to Sarasate, including Henryk Wieniawski 's Violin Concerto No. 2 (Wieniawski)|Violin Concerto No. 2 , Édouard Lalo 's Symphonie Espagnole , Camille Saint-Saëns ' Violin Concerto No. 3 (Saint-Saëns)|Violin Concerto No. 3 and his Introduction and Rondo capriccioso (Saint-Saëns)|Introduction and Rondo capriccioso , Max Bruch 's Scottish Fantasy , and Alexander Mackenzie (composer)|Alexander Mackenzie 's Pibroch Suite . Also inspired by Sarasate is William H. Potstock 's Souvenir de Sarasate .
Appearance in other art forms
Noted painter James Abbott McNeill Whistler|James Whistler 's Arrangement in Black: Pablo de Sarasate (1884) is a portrait of Pablo Sarasate.
In Arthur Conan Doyle 's short story The Red-Headed League (1891), Sherlock Holmes and John Watson (Sherlock Holmes)|Dr. John H. Watson attend a concert by Sarasate.
In Edith Wharton 's 1920 novel The Age of Innocence set in 1870s New York, the main protagonist is invited to a private recital to be given by Sarasate.
Sarasate is a major figure in "Murder to Music", a Sherlock Holmes pastiche by Anthony Burgess .Originally published in Burgess' ''The Devil's Mode (Random House, 1989). Reprinted 2009 in The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes , ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco: Night Shade Books ISBN 978-1-61523-551-3, ISBN 978-1597801607)
List of compositions http://www.chez.com/craton/musique/sarasate/sarasate.htm Catalogue of Works
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Opus
Composition
Instrumentation
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Fantasia Capriccio
Violin and piano
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Faust
Violin and piano
1
Fantasy on La forza del destino
Violin and piano
2
Rossini
Violin and piano
3
Boieldieu
Violin and orchestra
4
Réverie
Violin and piano
5
Fantasy on Roméo et Juliette
Violin and piano
6
Mireille
Violin and piano
7
Confidences
Violin and piano
8
Souvenir de Domont
Violin and piano
9
Les Adieux
Violin and piano
10
Sérénade Andalouse
Violin and piano
11
Le sommeil
Violin and piano
12
Moscovienne
Violin and piano
13
Faust
Violin and orchestra
14
Fantasy on Der Freischütz
Violin and orchestra
15
Mosaíque de Zampa
Violin and piano
16
Gavota on Mignon
Violin and piano
17
Priére at Berceuse
Violin and piano
18
Airs espagnols
Violin and piano
19
Martha
Violin and piano
20
Zigeunerweisen
Violin and orchestra
21
Malagueña y Habanera
Violin and piano
22
Romanza andaluza y jota navarra
Violin and piano
23
Playera y zapateado
Violin and piano
24
Capricho vasco
Violin and piano
25
Fantasy on Carmen
Violin and orchestra
26
Vito y habanera
Violin and piano
27
Jota aragonesa
Violin and piano
28
Serenata andaluza
Violin and piano
29
El canto del ruiseñor
Violin and orchestra
30
Bolero
Violin and piano
31
Balada
Violin and piano
32
Muñeira
Violin and orchestra
33
Navarra
Violin and orchestra
34
Airs Écossais
Violin and orchestra
35
Fantasía en sapo Reina
Violin and piano
36
Jota de San Fermín
Violin and piano
37
Zortzico Adiós montañas mías
Violin and piano
38
Viva Sevilla!
Violin and orchestra
39
Zortzico de Iparraguirre
Violin and piano
40
Introduction et fandango varié
Violin and piano
41
Introduction et caprice-jota
Violin and orchestra
42
Zortzico Miramar
Violin and orchestra
43
Introduction et tarantelle
Violin and orchestra
44
La chase
Violin and orchestra
45
Nocturno — Serenata
Violin and orchestra
46
Gondoliéra Veneziana
Violin and piano
47
Melodía rumana
Violin and piano
48
L'Esprit Follet
Violin and orchestra
49
Canciones rusas
Violin and orchestra
50
Jota de Pamplona
Violin and orchestra
51
Fantasy on Don Giovanni
Violin and piano
52
Jota de Pablo
Violin and orchestra
53
La Rève
Violin and piano
54
Fantasy on The Magic Flute
Violin and orchestra
Notes
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External links
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http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=ABm7nMVyNh4 Ziegeunerweisen , with the solo violin played by de Sarasate himself, and others (i.a. Jascha Heifetz and Itzhak Perlman )
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http://www.eduardohasiain.com/Paginas/Interpretaciones/SarasateE.html Eduardo H. Asiain plays music by Pablo Sarasate
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