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A Chair for Telemann
Date Completed:February 21, 2001
Duration:about 2 and a half minutes
Instrumentation:violin
First Performance:Roger Zahab on November 4, 2003, Frick Fine Arts Auditorium, Pittsburgh
Comments:for Dan Anderson This recording: Roger Zahab, violin
Program Notes:A Chair for Telemann was written for my student Dan Anderson both for his entertainment and to assist in the study of double stops. The title refers to a comment Philippe Herreweghe made in a magazine about the music of Telemann, and this Chair is built to help with a difficult moment in a Telemann Fantasia (the one in b flat...)

a recent performance in Cleveland
Sound Excerpt:
PDF Score Excerpt: Zahab_A_Chair_for_Telemann.pdf (57 kb)