Velyutin A. Mono-partita for flute solo

Author’s note

In 1987, at one of the concerts of contemporary music at the Small Hall of the Leningrad State Philharmonic, I heard Karlheinz Stockhausen’s AMOUR (1976) for clarinet solo for the first time. The virtuoso performance of the nearly half-hour cycle revealed to me in a new way the expressiveness of monodic polyphony in a continuous music process. Impressed by Stockhausen’s music, I wrote the Monopartita for solo flute, dedicating it to this outstanding composer who inspired me. The work was first performed and recorded by Oleg Mikhailovsky, a member of the famous Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra. The stage premiere of Monopartita took place later, at the House of Composers in St. Petersburg, performed by Arkady Tsypkin.

Alexander Veliutin