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\n \n About work:

Composition has become a principalistic activity in our century. If you don´t want to look dumb, you have to provide a principle first. Only then, you can start writing notes. Following this idea, when composing Barcarole, I created a principle. It was the aphorism of Erik Satie: „Don´t try to be genius in every measure!“ It´s a good principle. If you keep to it, it will provide the required principality, its breaking, however, leads directly to geniality. Now you have to choose. As a compositional basement, I chose Venetianisches Gondellied by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (Lieder ohne Worte, op. 30, č. 6), from which I took 6/8 measure, f sharp minor key, and a melodical shape of descending. While writing the piece, I had a fixed idea stuck in my mind – Janis Joplin said to Leonard Cohen in the hotel Chelsea: „We are ugly, but we have the music“. I am not aware of any other associations. Maybe, somewhere deep in my subconsciousness there were doing some mess Shakespeare´s Shylock from The Merchant of Venice. That is about it that I want to make public about the composition, and the rest is almost as mysterious as that rennaissance „secret chromatic art“.


\n (author, in: Bulletin Melos-Ethos 1993, p. 234.)
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First performance in Slovakia

\n \n \n 17.11.1993,\n Melos-Ethos,\n Moyzes Hall,\n Bratislava,\n SK\n\n
Performers: Juraj Čižmarovič (vn), Slovak Chamber Orchestra, Bohdan Warchal (umv.)\n
Premiere of the version with solo violin.
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First performance abroad

\n \n 26.06.1996,\n The Hellenic Centre,\n London,\n GB\n\n
Performers: Julian Lloyd Webber (vc), BT Scottish Ensemble, Clio Gould (dir.)\n
Premiere of the version with solo cello.
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First performance in Slovakia

\n \n \n 01.10.1997,\n Moyzes Hall,\n Bratislava,\n SK\n\n
Performers: Jozef Lupták (vc), Bratislava Chamber Soloists, Anton Popovič (dir.)\n
Slovak premiere of the version with solo cello.
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First performance abroad

\n \n 21.11.2008,\n Théatre Royal de Mons,\n Mons,\n BE\n\n
Performers: Daniel Rubenstein (vl), Ingrid Procureur (ar), Orchestre du Conservatoire Royal de Mons, Daniel Gazon (dir.)\n
Premiere of the version with solo viola.
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First performance in Slovakia

\n \n \n 22.03.2015,\n Small Concert Hall of the Slovak Philharmonic,\n Bratislava,\n SK\n\n
Performers: Ewald Danel (vl), Katarína Turnerová (ar), Slovak Chamber Orchestra\n
Slovak premiere of the version with solo viola.
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