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Risto Savin: Barcarola, 'Op. 6 No. 2'

632 views · Published 13 December 2018 · 2:01 · Indexed 5 October 2026

Channel: PSearPianist · 2018 · Music

Phillip Sear plays a very short barcarolle by the long-lived Slovene composer Friderik Širca (1859-1948), writing under the pseudonym Risto Savin
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Friderik Širca (1859-1948) learned piano at home as a child, but enlisted in the army at 19, and had a successful military career, which ended at the close of World War 1 with his achieving the rank of Major General. He had studied composition privately in Vienna with Robert Fuchs, and became a champion of Slovene-language opera. Per Wikipedia he was initially influenced by Wagner, but introduced impressionist elements into his later music. This piece comes from a set of six piano pieces written in 1895, and initially cast as Op. 6. Savin later removed them from his worklist and gave the opus number to another work. This piece is headed by an extract from a poem by the Slovene poet France Prešeren (1800-49). An approximate English translation is:

'A young fisherman rowing all night,
High in the sky a star flickers,
Guiding him to a safe sea passage'.

My thumbnail shows a detail from a print of 'La pêche au filet' (1861) by Charles Daubigny.
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Risto Savin: Barcarola, 'Op. 6 No. 2'

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