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composer says: The Sonata for guitar is dedicated to the Ukrainian
guitarist Roman Viazovskiy who contributed a great deal to bringing it to
completion. The work expresses the difficult contradictions in the internal
world of the person, full of contrasting feelings and emotions, its irresolute
misdirection, its sadness and joy, anxiety and tranquility. In correlation to
these ideas, the contemplation of the classical three movement structure of the
sonata form, where a great variety of shades are all related to one paramount
idea, creates a unity of form.
Konstantin
Vassiliev was born in Novoaltaisk, Russia, in 1970. He studied the guitar at the
Novosibirsk Conservatory with Arkadii Burkhanov and composition with Sergei
Tossin. On graduating from the Conservatory, he moved to Germany where he
continued his guitar studies with Reinbert Evers at the Hochschule für Musik
Detmold, Münster, and composition with Dr. Georg Haidu. In 1991 Vassiliev
organized a chamber ensemble made of a combination of traditional European and
Russian folk instruments. He now writes for this ensemble many original
compositions and arrangements of folk music. The melodic and harmonic attributes
of Russian music have an important meaning in his compositions.
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