Figaro

• Price: 16.81 USD

• Instrument: Cello
• Sub Category: Cello & Keyboard
• Composer: Rossini, Gioacchino
• Publisher: Carl Fischer
• Editor/Arranger: Piatigorsky, Gregor
• Publisher Code: B2670
• ISBN: 9781491158883
• Product #: ROSSI038



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Figaro published by Carl Fischer.

from "The Barber of Seville"

Rossini wrote an opera and named it The Barber of Seville. Featured was a character named Figaro, who sang some pretty catchy tunes, including one with the somewhat clunky title Largo al factotum. So catchy was this tune, in fact, that Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (who knew catchy tunes, having scored more than 200 films) was taken to writing a set of variations for his good friend Gregor Piatigorsky who knew a thing or two about the cello.

But, devious as he was, Castelnuovo-Tedesco's variations were increasingly virtuosic, a challenge for even the best cellists. We are pleased to make the Rossini / Castelnuovo-Tedesco / Piatigorsky Figaro once again available, throwing the gauntlet down for a new generation.