- Year of composition: 2 June 1909 according to the autograph
- Work category: Orchestral works in one movement
- First performed: 4 June 1909, Djurgården, Stockholm, at the opening of the Stockholm Exhibition of the Swedish Art and Design Industry, the Royal Dalecarlian Regiment Music Corps under the leadership of the composer
- Arrangement/revision: Revised and rescored by Gunnar Johansson 1974. Arrangement for modern wind band by Finn Rosengren 2015
- Duration: 8 min
Instrumentation
Alfvén's original orchestration: 3**.0.5**.0 / 4.6**.3.2 / 2 tenori, bombardino / timp, 4 perc
(2 picc, 2 e-flat clar, e-flat corn, b-flat corn)
Gunnar Johansson's arrangement: 3*.2.7***.2 / 4 sax / 4.6*.4*.2 / bar / timp, 2 perc, db
(picc, e-flat clar, alto clar, bass clar, 2 corn, bass tbn)
Finn Rosengren's arrangement: 3**25**2 / 4 sax / 46**3*2 / euphonium / timp, 4 perc, db.
(2 picc, e-flat clar, bass clar, e-flat corn, b-flat corn)
Examples of printed editions
Arrangement by Gunnar Johansson: Edition Suecia, Stockholm 1984.
Original version and arrangement by Finn Rosengren: Edition Levande Musikarv, Stockholm 2015
- Location autograph: Uppsala Universitetsbibliotek
Description of work
Andante E-flat major 4/4, Allegro alla breve, Presto
Media files
Edition Swedish Musical Heritage
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Scores
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Fest-Ouverture för stor militärkår - Score (pdf - 1.3 MB | Downloaded 4434 times)
Edition: Levande Musikarv
Originalversion. Publiceras med tillstånd av rättsinnehavaren: Hugo Alfvénfonden i Kungl. Musikaliska akademien.
Original version. Published with the permission of the copyright holder: The Hugo Alvén foundation of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. -
Fest-Ouverture för stor militärkår anpassad/adapted version - Score (pdf - 1.5 MB | Downloaded 4026 times)
Edition: Levande Musikarv
Anpassad för modern blåsorkester av Finn Rosengren. Publiceras med tillstånd av rättsinnehavaren: Hugo Alfvénfonden i Kungl. Musikaliska akademien.
Adapted for Modern Wind Orchestra by Finn Rosengren. Published with the permission of the copyright holder: The Hugo Alvén foundation of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.
Parts
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Fest-Ouverture för stor militärkår - Parts (zip - 15.4 MB | Downloaded 3165 times)
Edition: Levande Musikarv
Originalversion. Publiceras med tillstånd av rättsinnehavaren: Hugo Alfvénfonden i Kungl. Musikaliska akademien.
Original version. Published with the permission of the copyright holder: The Hugo Alvén foundation of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. -
Fest-Ouverture för stor militärkår anpassad/adapted version - Parts (zip - 19.5 MB | Downloaded 3470 times)
Edition: Levande Musikarv
Anpassad för modern blåsorkester av Finn Rosengren. Publiceras med tillstånd av rättsinnehavaren: Hugo Alfvénfonden i Kungl. Musikaliska akademien.
Adapted for Modern Wind Orchestra by Finn Rosengren. Published with the permission of the copyright holder: The Hugo Alvén foundation of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.Musikaliska akademien.
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