Souvenir de Vienne (valse pour violon et piano)
By Ignace Lilien
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(Waltz for violin and piano) Other titles: ‘Scherzo Viennois’ and ‘Old Vienna’
About Ignace Lilien
His hometown Lemberg, in the Ukraine known as Lviv, and in Poland as Lwów, has a history of occupation by shifting powers. This is why the Germans had trouble figuring out Ignace Lilien's real identity; he survived the war with forged documents. He worked as a chemical engineer, but that didn’t stop him from composing a large oeuvre. His life was as varied as his music, with influences ranging from Polish modernism to South American rhythms and timbres.
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