• Year of composition: October 1920
• Work category: Incidental music
• First performed: The Lorensbergsteatern (Gothenburg) [according to the autograph] on 14 October, 1920. Musicians from the Göteborgs orkesterförening [now Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra]
• Duration: Approx. 10-15 min
• Detailed duration: Duration uncertain

Instrumentation

1*.0.0.0 / 0.4*.3.0 / timp, 2 perc
(picc, 4 fanfare trp)
perc: sn dr*, 2 bass dr, cymb
(dr picc)

Location for score and part material

Handwritten parts material can be found at the Musik- och teaterbiblioteket (bound together with the above-mentioned score in Stenhammar's hand)

• Location autograph: Musik- och teaterbiblioteket
• Possible call no. and autograph comment: Wilhelm Stenhammar's archive [score (8 pages in ink, 4 pages in pencil)

Literature

Wallner, Bo: Wilhelm Stenhammar och hans tid, bd 1-3 (Norstedts Förlag, Stockholm, 1991)

Description of work

Act I
Scene 4 - Kungen dricker [The King drinking]
[2 trombe in B-flat, Timpano in E-flat]: Vivace (no fixed key signature) 4/4 (C)

Act II
Scene 2 - Skådespelarna kommer [The Actors arriving]
[Flauto piccolo, Tamburo piccolo]: Tempo di Marcia (no fixed key signature) 4/4 (C)

Act III
Scene 2
[Flauto grande]: Tempo ad libitum (no fixed key signature) 4/4 (C)

Act IV
Scene 4
[4 trombe in E-flat (Fanfare trumpets)]: Moderato - Marcia (no fixed key signature) 4/4 (C)

Act V
Scene 2 - The King drinking
[2 trumpets in B-flat and timpano in E-flat (as in Act I, scene 4); Cannon shot (bass dr)]: fanfares
[4 Trombe in E-flat, Tamburo piccolo]: Marcia (no fixed key signature) 4/4 (C)
Fortinbras entering [3 Trombe in E-flat, Tamburo piccolo]: (no tempo marking) (no fixed key signature) 4/4 (C)
[4 Trombe in E-flat, Tromboni, Timpani E-flat, B-flat; possibly also cymb; Cannon fire (2 bass dr)]: Marcia funebre C minor 4/4 (C)