Bottesini: Elegia No. 3 (Romanza Patetica - Melodie in E) for double bass and string quintet or string orchestra (Soteldo)

About the Edition In this Edition, you will find both versions, the Romanza Patetica and Melodia in E. This adaptation for solo double bass and string orchestra or string quintet is based on the piano score (Parma 47538) of the Bottesini manuscript that is located in Parma for the Romanza Patetica and the Flechsig edition for the Melodia in E. The numbering of the three elegies comes from Bottesini himself: Elegy 1 (in D), Elegy 2 (Romanza Dramatica), and Elegy No. 3 (Romanza Patetica). The Elegy Nº 3 or Romanza Pathetic was first published by Richault in Pairs (c.1880) in E minor, titled Mélodie. Bottesini’s eight-bar introduction, omitted in the first edition, was restored in a more recent reprint edited by Flechsig. The Flechsig version transcribes the solo part down an octave, changes very little from the first edition. There is a 10 bars difference between the manuscripts and the Flechsig edition, that difference star at bar 89 when the main idea is in E major, to bar 111 (Flechs