Lacrymosa: A La Memoria De Gerhart Muench; Para Orquesta. Lavista, Mario

[i-v], 20 pp. Folio, full score. Serie E (Ediciones Mexicanas de Musica), no. 39. One of 150 copies. Printed June 24, 1993. For string quintet and string orchestra with wind quintet, four trombones, and percussion. Commissioned by the Mineria Symphony Orchestra of Mexico. "Nuestras vidas son los rios que van a dar en la mar que es el morir."--Jorge Manrique. "The one who was an unquestionable genius and the most spectacular of all, aside from [Jean "Uncle Yanko"] Varda, who belongs to an earlier period, was Gerhart Muench of Dresden. Gerhart belongs in a category all himself. As a pianist he is phenomenal, if not incomparable. He is also a composer. And in addition, a scholar, erudite to the finger tips. If he had done no more for us than to interpret Scriabin and he did vastly more, all without result, alas--we of Big Sur ought be forever indebted to him." Henry Miller, Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch, p. 13