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Coste | La source du Lyson, op. 47 for solo guitar
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This is a re-engraved edition of Napoléon Coste's La Source du Lyson op. 47 for solo guitar, a long and interesting piece which includes a "Rondeau Villageois".
TECLA 0021. 12 pages. First published by Tecla in 1982.
Coste's La Source du Lyson for solo guitar is an example of the growing interest in romantic nature and actual places during the nineteenth century, the celebration of country life in art, just as in Berlioz or in Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony. The source of the river Lyson is a noted beauty spot in Coste's native region of France, the Doubs.
The picture on the cover is from a travel book by Charles Nodier, author of the novel Trilby. "Qu'on se figure un vallon agreste et sauvage, fermé au levant par une masse de rochers dont les plateaux supérieurs s'élèvent en amphithéâtre" (‘Imagine a rustic and wild valley, closed to the east by a mass of rocks whose upper plateaux rise in the form of an amphitheatre’) - thus wrote Nodier about the beauty-spot the source of the River Lyson which inspires this piece by Coste.
Also available:
TECLA 0391 - Schubert Lieder with their piano accompaniments arranged for guitar by Napoléon Coste, edited and with an introduction by Brian Jeffery, the first modern edition of these Coste arrangements.
TECLA 0122 - Napoleon Coste: Composer (1805-1883) by Noel Roncet- English
