Sonate Slave op.43 Dora Pejacevic

Slavic Sonata for Violin and Piano in B Flat Minor, Op. 43

The Sonata for Violin and Piano in B Flat Minor, Op. 43, Slavic, written in 1917, is one of the first works in Croatian music which unquestionably commits itself to the national style. There is an obvious attempt at integration of folklorisms (augmented seconds, a double pedal tone in the fifth, simple dance melodies) in a personal musical language. Folk music elements appear in a stylised form, with no attempt at folkloristic regionality. The scintillation of grotesqueness and humour in the final movement forms a pleasing balance here to the dramatic first movement and the lyrical central movement of the sonata.

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I. Allegro con anima
II. Adagio
III. Allegro molto vivace