Joseph Servais - Six Romances and Prelude (First Edition)

Joseph Servais (1850–1885), the youngest son of François Servais and Sophie Feygin, followed his father as a virtuoso cellist and later succeeded him at the Brussels Conservatory. Although his life was short, he left a small but meaningful body of works, including a cello concerto, string quartet, several Romances for cello and piano, preludes, and other incomplete works. He was also the dedicatee of Henry Vieuxtemps’s Second Cello Concerto.

This edition includes six Romances and a Prelude, published here for the first time. These lyrical and expressive works are a valuable addition to the nineteenth-century Belgian cello repertoire, ranging from approachable salon pieces to more advanced Romantic writing.

All sources used for this edition come from a private collection.

For more information about these works, see this article: https://yuriyleonovich.com/blogs/musings/posts/7410268/critical-notes-series-joseph-servais

ASTA Level: 4–6