Jean-Baptiste Accolay
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Jean-Baptiste Accolay (b. April 17, 1833 (Brussels, Belgium), d. August 19, 1900 (Brugge, Belgium) was a Walloon violin teacher, violinist, conductor, and composer of the romantic period . His best known composition is a student concerto with only one movement in A minor. It was written in 1868 originally for violin and orchestra. Although extremely obscure today, his short sketch for violin and trombone entitled "Guano" (1892) was Pablo Sarasate's favorite party-piece.
Accolay's Concerto in A minor has been played by many well-known violinists, including Itzhak Perlman. The liner notes for Perlman's recording of "Concertos from My Childhood" indicate that there are at least "seven works by the long forgotten French violinist and teacher Jean-Baptiste Accolay, whose concertos (including the one in question) were edited for publication by the Flemish virtuoso Mattieu Crickboom, a protege of the great Eugène Ysaÿe, and professor at the Royal Conservatory in Brussels." Accolay's Concerto in A minor {1868) is "one of the most enduring of all tutorial violin concertos, it is still regularly studied today. Though its executant demands are slight, this agreeably spontaneous piece highlights one of music's great paradoxes - that expressive power often derives from the simplest of technical means."
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- Concertos from My Childhood played by Itzhak Perlman with the Juilliard Orchestra conducted by Lawrence Foster. The Concerto in A minor by Jean-Baptiste Accolay is performed together with violin concertos by Giovanni Battista Viotti, Oskar Rieding, Charles August de Bériot and Friedrich Seitz. (EMI 56750)
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