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GEORGE ZERVOS
Nymphéas [Claude Monet]
for solo alto saxophone
EPN 1404
ISMN 979-0-69151-829-8
Pages: 12
Size: 235 x 320 mm
The title of the work “ Nymphéas “, although it refers to the series of paintings of the same name by the French Impressionist painter Claude Monet (1840-1926), does not have any ambition to represent or describe the specific paintings. By coincidence, a televised tribute to the life and work of the great Impressionist painter, brought back memories of my close contact with his paintings when I was studying in Paris, which reinforced the pre-existing impressionist atmosphere of the first measures of my work and pushed me to choose this title from the beginning.
In my “Nymphéas“, elusive figures are born, connected, and disconnected to be re-connected later in a continuous upward process until their final decomposition into their original as well as new components through a process of continuous development. The work was written in the summer of 2004, at the urging of the composer and sax-ophonist Thanassis Zervas, to whom it is dedicated.
G.Z.
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