George Gershwin: Lullaby
According to Ira Gershwin, 'Lullaby' was probably originally intended as a piano solo, as he was in possession of an unfinished fragment of it. However, it was not publically performed until 1967 when it emerged as a string quartet which George Gershwin had written sometime between 1919 and 1920. We do not know exactly when Gershwin composed the preceeding piano version of Lullaby, but the theme subsequently appears in 1922 as the heroine's love song in his opera 'Blue Monday'. Until the present edition, arranged By Alicia Zizzo, there was no existing score for piano solo.