Publisher: G. Henle Verlag
Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst
“Erlkönig” (after Schubert) and “The Last Rose of Summer” for Violin solo 
Ingolf Turban (Editor, Fingering)
Level: Difficult
Pages 24
Code No. HN1585

Violinist Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, a friend of Mendelssohn, was one of the great virtuosi of his age, standing alongside Paganini, Vieuxtemps and Wieniawski.
Like them, he left behind a series of compositions that showcase the violin’s potential. Two works stand out among the few of his pieces that are still performed today, both of them brilliant and technically-challenging works for solo violin: his arrangement of Schubert’s “Erlkönig’, published in 1854; and the last of his Six Polyphonic Studies of 1864, whose theme is from the extremely popular Irish folksong of the time “The last rose of summer”.

Titles:
Erlkönig
The Last Rose of Summer