VINCENZO BELLINI - MA RENDI PUR CONTENTO

Malinconia, Ninfa Gentile - Bellini-Freund cover.jpg

ARRANGED FOR SOPRANO (OR TREBLE INSTRUMENT) AND HARP

Italian operatic composer Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835) composed simple and tuneful works for voice and piano.  Malinconia, Ninfa Gentile is from a collection of fifteen pieces, Composizioni da Camera, which likely composed in the 1820s when Bellini was young, but remained unpublished until the centenary of his death in 1935.  This is a short and sorrowful work, and its comfortable accompaniment contains arpeggiated patterns that switch between left and right hand.  This flexible arrangement can be performed on a recital in harp and voice format, or adapted for any harp and treble instrument to sight-read at gigs.

Instrumentation: Flexible-- Soprano and Harp, or Treble Instrument and Harp

Difficulty: Intermediate

Publisher: Lyon & Healy