After the many Ysaÿe works and some “fun editing” of diverse pieces for string quartet and harp I had done, I was going trough my inventure of Ysaÿe manuscripts one more time. What I found, was a lovely slow piece for violin with strings and piano but there was missing the title page and also on the first page didn’t say the title as well.
So, I thought, let’s see how it sounds, took me couple of days to make the score in Finale and voila, already the Finale playback showed some really beautiful melody line and harmonies.
I was desperate to find out the title and finally succeeded; it is “Lament” and it also says somewhere on the manuscript “In Memoriam”. Since there is a date at the end, 1924 June, and we know that his first wife passed away in 1924 February, it is likely that he wrote it in her memory.
Like always, here I found also quite a number of presumable mistakes but most of them were easy to guess. After correcting, it sounded right the way more like Ysaÿe. He used quite many key signature changes, seemingly after having done in the key before, so it was easy to see and of course hear, to find the correct notes. Only couple of spots had real wrong notes, obiously wrong and dissonant.
And now I found again something new, it is also a calm piece, violin with piano, Petite Fantaisie Romantique, I already started to put it into Finale.