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Fauré's "Sicilienne" exists in several versions. Composed in 1893 as part of incidental music for Moliere's "Le Bourgeois gentilhomme", it remained unheard in this form as the theatre went bankrupt. A surviving manuscript from this time shows the piece scored for flute, oboe, and string quartet. In April 1898 Fauré incorporates it into his incidental music for Maeterlinck's "Pelléas et Mélisande", as an introduction to the fountain scene where Mélisande loses her ring. At the same time he made a reducion for solo piano and a version for cello and piano, the latter dedicated to the English cellist William Henry Squire. The authorship of the arrengement for violin is not known; it is probably not by Fauré. Fauré composed "Elégie" in 1880, possibly as a part of a sonata that was never completed. The public premiere was given in Paris by its dedicate, Jules Loëb, accompanied by Fauré, on 15 December 1883.

Lista utworów:
Elégie c-Moll op. 24 (Fauré Gabriel)
Sicilienne g-Moll op. 78 (Fauré Gabriel)

The Trio in G minor op. 8 for piano, violin and cello is Chopin's earliest chamber work. Begun in spring 1828, it was composed slowly and was completed only late in 1829. Some six months later, a letter from the composer to Woyciechowski reveals that he was considering changing the violin for the more powerfully-sounding viola, a change which in the event he did not introduce. It originated in that period of his career in which he was acquainting himself with the possibilities of particular instruments and working on solo pieces with orchestra. In this Trio in G minor Chopin departed from brillante virtuosity, formulated the musical ideas in a compact and precise way, using the Beethoven-like arrangement of the movements as a basis: Allegro, Scherzo, Adagio and Rondo with the stylized krakowiak imparting a Polish accent to the finale. Trio in G minor is - alongside the trios by Schubert, Schumann and Mendelssohn - one of the most outstanding works of this genre in the Romantic epoch.

Lista utworów:
Trio g-moll op. 8 (Chopin Fryderyk)

Antoni Wincenty Rutkowski - composer, pianist and teacher, was born in Warsaw on 21 January 1859. The period of his activity as a composer was short, lasting barely ten years, during which period he wrote approximately thirty works; eleven of them were lost. He composed mainly instrumental works, several of which - the shorter ones - were published during his lifetime. Two trends may clearly be distinguished throughout his oeuvre. The first is represented by his early works which do not differ significantly from contemporary Polish compositional conventions, even trhough they are frequently characterized by more interesting features, especially in harmonic content. The second trend comprises compositions characterized by experimental tendencies and, for the time and conditions precailing in contemporary Poland, audacious attempts at modernization of his musical language equalling sometimes the innovations of Wagner. This trend features bold, tonal juxtapositions, and the use of dissonant chord successions, while melody of an ornamental-figurative type ceases to be the foreground musical element in favour of harmonies. The autograph of the score of the Trio in G minor for violin, cello and piano is to be found in the library of the Warsaw Music Society. The Trio in G minor consists of three movements. The first of them is in sonata form, the second in ternary form (ABA), and the third is a rondo.

Lista utworów:
Trio g-moll op. 13 (Rutkowski Antoni)