Violin/voice and piano SKU: BO.B.3714
Composed by Joaquim Malats. Published by Editorial de Musica Boileau (BO.B.3714). Malats composed and transcribed several works for violin and piano based on some of his piano works. Two of these are the Canto de Amor (Love Song) and the Serenata Espanola (Spanish Serenade), both from the suite Impresiones de Espana (Impressions of Spain).
There are only three songs for voice and piano by Malats which are known at the present time: a Nana (Lullaby) dedicated to Rosita Malats, written in the form of a theme and variations; Tristesse (Sadness) dedicated to Eliseo Meifren, with a text by Alfred de Musset; and, finally, an arrangement of the well-known Serenata Espanola with a text by Jose Nieto.
We know that Malats composed a collection of songs with texts by Catulle Mendez, Maria Sourcouf, Henri de Braine and David and Armando Silvestre. However, no publication of these songs is known, nor of the two romances Reveil and En Vous Voyant that were performed by the tenor Ramon Blanchart in 1898 at the Ateneo in Madrid.
