PIEZA PARA ORQUESTA · (PEQUEÑA PIEZA)

Work information Autograph Sketches (3) Instrumental parts (5) Other versions (6) Others

Instrumental genre Music for symphony orchestra
Place of composition
Mexico City
Date of composition
March 19, 1929
Dedication
No dedication
Duration
3’
Instrumentation
Picc, fl, 2cl[B♭], 2bn / 2cor / strings
Documentary archive
Only one photostat of the autograph has been preserved, in the custody of the Contreras family. However, a large number of manuscripts associated with this work have been found. They include an incomplete set of parts (done by a copyist) and a 16-page sketch (original by the composer), both of which correspond to the autograph. There is also a draft score of a preliminary version for chamber group (blue ink) and some associated instrumental parts. The instrumental parts of the orchestral version were written on staff paper previously used for a film score by Rodolfo Halffter (Entre hermanos). Halffter immigrated to Mexico in 1939, following the Spanish Civil War.
Notes by compiler
The autograph shown here is a restoration done from a photocopy. Here, the work’s title appears as “Piece for Orchestra,” but in the instrumental parts, it is recorded as “Small Piece.”
Publications
Unpublished