Joël and Gilbert Impérial Play Rebay (Viola and Guitar)

ByBradford Werner
2018

Joël Impérial (Viola) and Gilbert Impérial (Guitar) perform Sonata for viola and guitar in D minor I – Molto moderato by Ferdinand Rebay (1880-1953). This comes via Gilbert Impérial’s YouTube channel with video & audio by Drew Henderson. Ferdinand Rebay was an Austrian composer, music teacher, choir director, and pianist. He has a number of works with guitar included and did more with the guitar in chamber music than many composer of the time who generally regulated it to chords and arpeggios.

Bradford Werner

Bradford Werner is a classical guitarist and music publisher from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He originally created this site for his students at the Victoria Conservatory of Music but now shares content worldwide. Curating guitar content helps students absorb the culture, musical ideas, and technique of the classical guitar. Bradford also has a YouTube channel with over 94,000 subscribers and 13 million views. He taught classical guitar at the Victoria Conservatory of Music for 16 years and freelanced in Greater Victoria for 20 years and now dedicates much of his time curating content online and helping connect the classical guitar community. See more at his personal website.