Yehezkel Braun

The Jester's Lament
for viola

מק"ט: IMI 202
שנת כתיבה: 1968
משך היצירה: 5 דקות
מו"ל: מכון למוסיקה ישראלית
חינוכי-רמה: 1
מילות מפתח:
Viola

The Jester's Lament for viola was written in 1968. It is a poetic phantasy on the perennial image of the court jester in his moment of solitude, emphasizing the second part of the Biblical verse "Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful." The viola, with its warm, richly expressive and basically sombre tone, seemed to the composer most fit to express this .poetic idea