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Oscár de la Cinna: Une larme (Romance), Op.37

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Channel: PSearPianist · 2015 · Music

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Phillip Sear plays a piece - 'A Tear' - from 1873 (possibly from a set of 'Reminiscences of Russia') by the Hungarian/Spanish composer Oscár de la Cinna (1836-1906).
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Oscár de la Cinna (1836-1906) was Hungarian by birth, and studied piano with Czerny. However, he travelled widely (for example, in 1854 he put on a concert in Stockholm), and visited Mallorca in 1866, subsequently marrying a local girl. After again living in various parts of Europe, he eventually settled in Seville. He had actually been to Seville in the 1850s where he attempted to introduce German repertoire, then little known there, in a recital. He wrote much piano salon music - each piece with its own opus number. The music I have seen is all very well written, and seems to provide a musical bridge between the Spain of Bizet and Delibes, and that of Albeniz and Granados.  Although this piece does not sound particularly Russian, I suspect that it is a setting of a Russian popular song, and the separation of the verses by a faster ritornello is quite typical of early19th century Russian romances by the likes of Alabiev.  The dedicatee is (I believe) the Mexican -born Ysabelle Fernández Pasalagua (1845-1932), who married a son of the Marquess of Douro (Cinna was well-connected and dedicated many of his pieces to Spanish nobles).

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