Elegia Composed by J.K. Mertz.
Performed live @ Statenpoort Hoorn Netherlands, during Hoornse stadsfeesten 2009. www.gitaarsalon.nl
Performed by Nathasja Van Rosse, prominent Dutch classical guitarist, educated in Rotterdam, Graz and Hague,
winner of various international competitions, founder of Foundation GitaarPodium Rotterdam (2007) and Music Foundation North in 2012
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Clyde C Watkins3 years ago
She has a wonderful power to really make an elegy of this. Most musicians miss that this was composed after Mertz learned that he had a mortal illness, with not much time left. She makes it feel like he is saying "I am still alive now, but what am I to make of that?"
Clyde C Watkins3 years ago
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