Solo Guitar - Digital Download

SKU: A0.923695

Composed by robert fruehwald. 20th Century,Contemporary. Individual part. 10 pages. Robert Fruehwald #2154597. Published by Robert Fruehwald (A0.923695).

Versi is inspired by the music of the Italian Baroque composer Domenico Zipoli (1688-1726). Zipoli wrote many sets of Versi, short keyboard works intended for use in the mass. These works are charming, brief, and simple. Zipoli joined the Jesuits in 1716 and became a missionary in South America where he preached, composed and taught music to the natives. I imagined a probably impossible scenario: that Zipoli encountered, in the jungle, a music not unlike the Latin American music of today. There his Baroque style blended with the native music to produce a novel hybrid. Versi is the result of those impossible imaginings.