[Manuscript] Allegro Vivace por Violino con accomp: di Piano forte.

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Antonio Scontrino (1850-1922), following a successful concert career as a double-bassist, became Professor of Composition at the Palermo Conservatoire, where he himself had studied, and subsequently taught composition and counterpoint at the Florence Conservatoire. He composed across many genre - operas, symphonies, lieder, concerti (for double-bass, bassoon and piano), and string quartets.This G-minor work, which appears to be unpublished, is a tour-de-force for the virtuoso violinist with double-stopping from the outset, rapid string changes and staccato chromatic scale passages, the contrasting cantabile sections, accompanied on the piano by rich shifting harmonies, allowing the soloist's musicality and the tone of the instrument to come to the fore. The sketchy performance marks highlight rests with the occasional bowing indication.