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The Sonata for Solo Cello is an unaccompanied cello sonata written by György Ligeti between 1948 and 1953. The piece was initially received poorly by the Soviet-run Composer's Union and was not allowed to be published or performed. However, in the 1980s and 90s, after over a quarter century in repose, the piece reemerged and has since become a well-known part of the standard cello repertoire. The Sonata comprises two disjunct movements: # Dialogo – Adagio, rubato, cantabile # Capriccio – Presto con slancio ==History== Ligeti was nearing the end of his schooling in 1948 and had already established himself as a highly gifted student.〔Richard Toop, ''György Ligeti'' (London : Phaidon Press, 1999), 29.〕 In this year, he composed the ''Dialogo'', which would later become the first movement of the Sonata, for a female cellist and fellow student at the Budapest Music Academy, Annuss Virány, with whom Ligeti was "secretly in love."〔Steven Paul, “A Tale of Two Movements,” program notes to Suites and Sonatas for Solo Cello, Matt Haimovitz, cello, (Deutsche Grammophon CD 431 813-2, 1991), 5.〕 Virány purportedly was not aware of the reason behind Ligeti’s generosity; she merely thanked him and never played it.〔Paul, 5.〕 Several years later, in 1953, Ligeti met Vera Dénes, an older and more celebrated cellist, who asked him for a piece of music.〔Richard Steinitz, ''György Ligeti: Music of the Imagination'' (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2003), p. 51.〕 Having written only one unperformed cello work to date, Ligeti offered to expand the ''Dialogo'' into a "two-movement short sonata," adding a virtuosic ''Capriccio'' movement.〔Paul, 5.〕 With the country still under Soviet occupation, Ligeti was required to subject all his compositions to the scrutiny of the Communist-controlled Composers’ Union, at the risk of losing his job.〔Steinitz, 52.〕 He later recalled his interaction with the Union: With that decree, the piece was set aside, not to be performed again until 1979. From then, the popularity of the Sonata grew, and in 2005 became a qualifying test for the Rostropovich Cello Competition in Paris. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sonata for Solo Cello (Ligeti)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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