Szymanowski - La Fontaine d'Arethuse from Mythes, Op. 30 (Transcribed for Cello and Piano)

The Mythes Op. 30 is a work for violin and piano written by Karol Szymanowski in 1915 and premiered one year later by Paweł Kochański on violin and the composer on piano. It is dedicated to Kochański's wife, Zofia Kochańska. Similarly to the Métopes composed around the same time, the Myths consists of three programmatic miniature tone poems drawing

The Mythes Op. 30 is a work for violin and piano written by Karol Szymanowski in 1915 and premiered one year later by Paweł Kochański on violin and the composer on piano. It is dedicated to Kochański's wife, Zofia Kochańska. Similarly to the Métopes composed around the same time, the Myths consists of three programmatic miniature tone poems drawing on Greek mythology. The piece was heavily inspired by the composer's earlier travels in Sicily and North Africa and by impressionist music. The work is considered an important milestone in 20th-century violin writing and was heavily admired by Szymanowski's contemporaries, such as Béla Bartók and Sergei Prokofiev.

The first movement of the suite is called La Fontaine d'Arethuse. In Greek mythology, Arethuse (Arethusa) was a nymph who fled from her home in Arcadia beneath the sea and came up as a freshwater fountain on the island of Ortygia in Syracuse, Sicily.

This set contains the cello part and a copy of a public-domain piano part.