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Much of the genesis of Paraphrase is relatively unknown – as this piece is not listed in his son Antoine Ysaÿe’s catalogue of works or mentioned in letters. His wife, Louise Bourdau, was a singer herself and may have been the source of inspiration for this work. The text itself, highly poetic and romantic in nature, is original, also written by Ysaÿe himself. What material survives of Paraphrase is a full orchestral manuscript score completed in Altamount and dated 1919, complete set of parts written on Carl Fischer – New York No. 3 paper with corrections by the composer, and an orchestral reduction for voice and piano published in 1927 by Editions Ysaÿe in Brussels as Op. 30.
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