for violin and piano

With hisSix Morceaux, Raff created a collection of six short pieces with the aim of pleasantly entertaining many a listener and demonstrating that he was also capable of writing something easy. After all, he had made a name for himself in the years before with extremely demanding chamber music for renowned dedicatees. TheSix Morceaux, dedicated to the violinist Ludwig Straus, on the other hand, are probably related to Raffs teaching activities at a private piano school in Wiesbaden at that time. Therefore, with the individual pieces varying in difficulty they are well suited for violin lessons without losing any of their musical ambition. The most famous piece is probably the Cavatina. Arranged for various scorings during Raffs lifetime, it continues to be one of the most popular Encore pieces altogether Fritz Kreisler, Yehudi Menuhin and Itzhak Perlman have made recordings of the piece. They say that a piano quintet version was even heard on theTitanic. This modern Urtext edition is based on the first printing, supervised and initiated by Raff himself.