TRES SONETOS · [Poemas de Carlos Pellicer] |
Work information
Autograph
Others (2)
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| Instrumental genre | Music for small orchestra |
| Place of composition | Mexico City |
| Date of composition | February 9–11, 1938 |
| Dedication | No dedication |
| Premiere | It is unknown whether the work was premiered in the composer’s lifetime. José Yves Limantour prepared and premiered a version on January 31, 1960 with the Guadalajara Symphony Orchestra and Carlos Pellicer reciting his poems. |
| Duration | 7’ |
| Instrumentation | 2cl[B♭], bcl, bn / cor, 2tpt, tba / pf / perc (tam-tam) |
| Documentary archive | The autograph’s original cover and a complete set of photostats have been preserved. |
| Notes by compiler | There is no information regarding a possible premiere during Revueltas’s lifetime. José Yves Limantour prepared a suite, incorporating two bridges with music from the material written for the film Night of the Mayas. |
| Publications | Southern Music Publishing Co., published as Three Sonnets (this publication follows Revueltas’s manuscript rather than Limantour’s). |