Wilhelm Peterson-Berger (1867−1942)

Romans för violin med orkester d-moll [Romance for violin with orchestra in D minor]

Print
  • Year of composition: 1915
  • Work category: Violin and orchestra
  • Dedication: To Karl Tirén
  • First performed: 13 April 1916, the Konsertföreningen [Concert society] in Stockholm [now the Royal Stocholm Philharmonic Orchestra], Sven Kjellström violin, cond. Wilhelm Peterson-Berger
  • Duration: 12 min
  • Detailed duration: 11'55 according to Wilhelm Peterson-Berger. Symphony no. 2/Violin romance. Symfoniorkestern Norrköping [the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra]. Ulf Wallin (violin), Michail Jurowski (conductor). CPO 999 564-2 (1998)

Instrumentation

2*.2.3*.2 / 4.0.0.0 / timp, hp / str
(picc, bass clar)

Examples of printed editions

• Levande musikarv/Swedish Musical Heritage, Stockholm 2014. Critical edition by Cristian Marina
• Abraham Lundquist, Abr.L.4717 (Ed. no. 5325 piano reduction)

  • Location autograph: Musik- och teaterbiblioteket
  • Possible call no. and autograph comment: Z/Sv

Literature

Karlsson, Henrik: Wilhelm Peterson-Berger. Verkförteckning [List of works] (2004) [available at the Musik- och teaterbiblioteket]

Description of work

Moderato [Andante con moto according to the score autograph] D minor 3/4 104 bars, G minor 43 bars, D minor 50 bars, D major 48 bars, D minor 30 bars, in total 275 bars

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Work comment

According to an inscription on the material in the Mazerska biblioteket [the music library of the Mazer Quartet Society], location mark no. 75, in 1927 Peterson-Berger proposed that bar no. 205 should be directly followed by bar no. 230 (i.e., bars nos. 206-229 should be omitted)