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Passacaglia for Solo Flute (Op. 48, No. 2)

By Dohnányi Ernő

E. Dohnányi: Passacaglia for Solo Flute (Op. 48, No 2) was composed in 1959 and dedicated to young flutist Ellie Baker, the daughter of John Baker, the president of the Ohio University  in Athens as response to Ellies's enthusiasm  for his beloved Brahms ("If only Brahms had written some solo music for flute"). Even though Passacaglia was meant to be in style of Brahms’s, it seems that Dohnányi couldn't avoid experimenting with the dissonant material, though.

Sharon Bezaly

2004 BIS, Naxos

Passacaglia

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Denis Bouriakov

2021, a live in Seoul, Korea for Galway Flute Festival

Passacaglia

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Dohnányi Ernő

Ernst (Ernő) von Dohnányi (1877-1960) was a Hungarian pianist, conductor and composer with very conservative (some may hear some vague resemblance to Brahms’s music) compositional style.
After serving as Director of the Budapest Academy of Music (1934-1943), he moved to Austria and then to United States, after many years of controversial debates and clearing his name regarding his role in the Holocaust.  Among his most popular compositions: Serenade for String Trio (Op. 10) and variations on a Nursey Tune for piano and orchestra (Op. 25).