Johan Helmich Roman (1694-1758)

Sinfonia II [F major] ("Printz Gustafs Musique" [Prince Gustaf's Music])

BeRI 10

1. Con Spirito
2. Allegretto
3. Presto

Year of composition: The piece was composed in the end of the 1730s och beginning of 1740s according to Ingmar Bengtsson.
Work category: Symphony
Duration: Approx. 5-10 min

Instrumentation

0.2.0.1 / 2.0.0.0 / cont / str
[The bassoon part is added by the publisher]

Examples of printed editions

Monumenta Musicae Svecicae (together with Sinfonia I and III), Almqvist & Wiksell, Stockholm 1965, critical edition, available from Edition Reimers

Location for score and part material

Handwritten material can be found at the Musik- och teaterbiblioteket (Ro:14a, Ro:14d, Ro:97[64], and Ro:9-17b, Ro:9-17c), at the Lund Univerisity Libraries (LUB:Eng no. 264, Wenster Litt C no. 15), and at the Uppsala Universitety Library (Caps. 57:23). This Sinfonia is also included in the Leufsta Mus.ms 6 collection at the Uppsala University Library.

Literature

Bengtsson, Ingmar: J. H. Roman och hans instrumentalmusik (1955)

Description of work

1. Con Spirito F major 2/4
2. Allegretto F major 3/8
3. Presto F major 6/8