LETTRE À
L'IMMORTELLE
BIEN-AIMÉE Hero
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LETTRE À L'IMMORTELLE BIEN-AIMÉE

Correspondence for mandolin and piano

« Ever thine, ever mine, ever ours. »

— Ludwig van Beethoven

Duration

5'

Instrumentation

Mandolin and piano

COMPOSITION

2019

COMMISSIONED BY

Julien Martineau

Publisher

Scripta Manent Editions

PREMIERE

Julien Martineau and Vanessa Benelli Mosell

May 17, 2021

Théâtre de l'Alliance Française, Paris

Score

LETTRE À
L'IMMORTELLE
BIEN-AIMÉE Partition

Program Notes

Whether penned with a feather in the Middle Ages or sent via text today, love letters all seem contemporary: between their lines emerges the same fragile and incandescent human fabric, where fear and waiting mingle with anxiety, joy, hope, and frustration.

By translating this intertwining of emotions into sound, my Lettre à l'Immortelle Bien-Aimée gives shape to these timeless emotions and retraces the silent epic that everyone undergoes when they love—this truth of the heart beautifully condensed in the final phrase of the letters found in Beethoven's possession after his death, addressed to an unknown recipient: "Ever thine, ever mine, ever ours."

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