Edited and fingered by Helvia Briggen.
6 pp., $5.95, Presser Order number 494-02500 (HARP-2)
Waterscape
was composed in 1998. It is the reflection of my recollections of one and the
same permanently repeated scene of a flowing and evanescent picture. In spite of
the minimal musical means I used in this score, I suppose a performer looking
for various colors of the palette might focus on the romantic mood. Waterscape
is dedicated to, and written especially for the outstanding French harpist
Helvia Briggen whom I met in 1998 on the occasion of the 13th International Harp
Contest in Jerusalem as she has very successfully played my required piece Sonata
in 3 Visions for Harp solo and as to me she has been among the winners of
the Contest.
Jan
Freidlin was born in southern Siberia in 1944 and studied in Odessa where he
later taught as Head of the Music Theory department at the famous Stolyarsky
Special Music College. He currently teaches at the Levinsky Teachers College in
Tel Aviv. Jan Freidlin received the Grand Prix of Varna International Cinema
Festival (1978), the AKUM Prize (Israel) for “Miscenscens”—Sonata for
Violin & Cello (1993), 2nd Prize for “Letters from Arles” for Guitar at
the 1995 Guitar Foundation of America Competition, the Liberson Prize for Piano
Trio Nº 2 (Israel, 1995). His works were performed in the former USSR, Germany,
France ,UK, Italy, Australia, Brasil, USA. His “Sonata in Three Visions” for
Solo Harp was chosen by the International Harp Contest in Israel for the 1998
Contest as the required Israeli work. More recently, Jan Freidlin received the
first prize at the Tampa Bay International Composers’ Forum for Excellence in
Chamber Music (2002) for his Twilight Music for Flute, Violin & Piano.
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