Fantaisie, op. 10

This fantasia op. 10 was first published by Meissonnier in Paris in about 1817-22 with the title Troisième Fantaisie, at a time when Sor was living in London. If there ever was an English edition, however, no trace of it has yet been found. The Meissonnier edition bore the opus number 10, and it was doubtless called the “Troisième” (third) fantasia because Meissonnier counted the works now known as opp. 4 and 7 as the first two fantasias. (When Meissonnier came to publish op. 12, he called it “Quatrième Fantaisie” even though it seems that in England the work now known as op. 12 had been considered as the first fantasia. See the notes to the fantasia op. 4.)

A slow introduction leads into a melodious theme, followed by two variations; then a section called “Majeur” which is rather an interlude than a true variation; then two more variations and a coda conclude this fine extended work. The sixth string should be tuned to F, a practice not unusual in Sor’s time (it was used, for example, in op. 1, no. 6).

Bar 11 of the introduction: the last two A flats in the bar are G in the original. Emended editorially.

The dots in the first bar of the theme doubtless apply also at bars 3, 5, etc. This edition comes from the new 2019 second edition of Sor’s New Complete Works for Guitar edited by Brian Jeffery. The Introduction and Index to the entire series are here in nkoda.

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