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Echoes
for violin and piano
total duration: 20⅓ minutes
I. Vivace, fuoco
II. Andante, cadenza
III. Presto
Music: © 2011 David Gompper
I. Vivace, fuoco
II. Andante, cadenza
III. Presto
Music: © 2011 David Gompper
I. Vivace, fuoco
II. Andante, cadenza
III. Presto
Music: © 2011 David Gompper
Program Notes

Echoes for violin and piano, serves as a proto-version of the Violin Concerto. Both works were written for the violinist Wolfgang Dávid. The musical material (the fifth out of twenty-nine possible collections) is generated from the idea of a continuous series of perfect fifths (the open strings of the violin are all tuned a fifth apart), but which are "broken" or interrupted by a number of minor seconds at various junctures. The composition is in three movements. The opening fast exposition alternates between a single note (G) and robust jabbing sonorities, where throughout the roles of horizontal and vertical materials are continually alternated between the soloist and the piano. The middle section presents a slow lyrical melody along with a series of contrapuntal lines based on the augmented triad. Following the cadenza, the finale is a driving romp in the form of a rondo (A-B-A-C-A etc.).

Performances
-University of Iowa, Oct. 25, 2009 (Dávid, Gompper)
-Northwestern College, IA, Oct. 22, 2009 (Dávid, Gompper)
-St. Poelten, Austria, September 11, 2009 (Dávid, Gompper)
-Memorial Church, Cambridge, October 3, 2008(Dávid, Gompper)
-Carnegie Hall, New York, September 29, 2008 (Wolfe, Kim)
-Ohio State University, Columbus, September 29, 2008 (Dávid, Gompper)
-University of Delaware, Newark, DE, September 27, 2008 (Wolfe, Kim)
-University of Oklahoma, Norman, September 25, 2008 (Wolfe, Kim)
-University of Indianapolis, September 24, 2008 (Dávid, Gompper)
-Masonic Hall, Iowa City, September 23, 2008 (Wolfe, Kim)
-Illinois Valley CC, Oglesby, IL, September 23, 2008 (Dávid, Gompper)
-Estonian Academy of Music, Tallinn, June 3, 2008 (Dávid, Gompper)
-Austrian Cultural Forum, New York, March 6, 2008 (Dávid, Gompper)
-University of Cincinnati (CCM), March 2, 2008 (Dávid, Gompper)
-Carnegie Mellon, Feb. 28, 2008 (Dávid, Gompper)
-Austrian Cultural Forum, Rome, Italy, February 20, 2008 (Dávid, Gompper)
-University of Saskatchewan, November 7, 2007 (Dávid, Gompper)
-Northwestern College, Iowa, October 26, 2007 (Dávid, Gompper)
-University of Chicago, October 25, 2007 (Dávid, Gompper)
-Austrian Embassy, Washington DC, Oct. 5, 2007 (Dávid, Gompper)
-Boston University, September 25, 2007 (Dávid, Gompper)
-Eastman School of Music, September 24, 2007 (Dávid, Gompper)
-University of Michigan, September 21, 2007 (Dávid, Gompper)
-Bowling Green State Univ., September 20, 2007 (Dávid, Gompper)
-Denison University, September 19, 2007 (Dávid, Gompper)
-University of Iowa, September 16, 2007 (Dávid, Gompper)
-Coe College, September 15, 2007 (Dávid, Gompper)
-Frankfurter Kuenstlerclub, Frankfurt, Germany, June 10, 2007 (Dávid, Gompper)