Saint-Saens, Camille - Introduction et Rondo capriccioso - for Violin and Piano - Edited by Peter Jost - G Henle Verlag URTEXT

Carmen Fantasy, Opus 25 "In his brief appreciation of Pablo de Sarasate...Camille Saint-Saens emphasised the importance of this great Spanish virtuoso for his own violin works. Sarasate was only fifteen years old when he first visited Saint-Saens in 1859. He asked the compser for a violin concerto. 'Flatter and utterly enchanted, I promised to do so and kept my word with the Concerto in A Major. [...] Then I wrote the Rondo capriccioso  in the Spanish style for him, and later the Concerto in b minor [...]. With his magical bow, Pablo de Sarasate took my compositions to all countries, and of all the services he rendered me, this was the most valuable.'"Sample of the Preface by Peter Jost