Carl Nielsen
Kvartet for to violiner, bratsch og cello, opus 13
Quartet for Two Violins, Viola and Cello, Opus 13
Opus 13
CNW 55
CNUCarl Nielsen Udgaven (The Carl Nielsen Edition. Royal Danish Library: Copenhagen 1998–2009)
II/10; IV/1, Add. 12
CNSCarl Nielsens Samling (The Carl Nielsen Collection, Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen)
39, 250
FSDan Fog & Torben Schousboe: Carl Nielsen kompositioner. En Bibliografi. København 1965.
4
Composition: 1887–88.
The string quartet in G minor, Op. 13, is the earliest of Nielsen's four published quartets. It was composed from December 1887 until February 1888. It belongs among the works of his youth including two other complete quartets and some individual movements for string quartet.
Key: G minor
Music
1.
Allegro energicoKey: G minor
2.
Andante amorosoKey: E♭ major
3. Scherzo
Allegro moltoKey: C minor
4. Finale
Allegro (inquieto)Key: G minor
Sources
Sketches
Sketches
Sketches
Score, autograph, draft
Score, autograph, fair copy
Score, autograph, printer's manuscript
Score, print
Parts, print
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Carl Nielsen's copy
DK-KkDet Kongelige Bibliotek, København CNSCarl Nielsens Samling (The Carl Nielsen Collection, Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen) 39f.CNU Source B.
Performances
| 26 Mar. 1889 | Copenhagen (performers: Anton Svendsen, violin; Holger Møller, violin; Christian Petersen, viola; Fritz Bendix, cello). Private Chamber Music Society (Privat Kammermusikforening). First performance. |
| 18 Dec. 1889 | Frimurerlogen, Copenhagen (performers: Carl Nielsen, violin; Holger Møller, violin; Kristian Sandby, viola; Fritz Bendix, cello). Kammermusikforeningen. |
| 20 Mar. 1895 | Frimurerlogen, Copenhagen (performers: Anton Svendsen, violin; Holger Møller, violin; Christian Petersen, viola; composer: Franz Neruda, cello). Kammermusikforeningen. |
| 25 Mar. 1896 | Copenhagen (performers: Axel Gade, violin; Ludvig Holm, violin; Carl Nielsen, viola; Fritz Bendix, cello). Vor Forening. |
| 8 Apr. 1896 | Frimurerlogen, Copenhagen (performers: Axel Gade, violin; Ludvig Holm, violin; Christian Petersen, viola; Ernst Høeberg, cello). Kammermusikforeningen. |
| 3 Feb. 1898 | Koncertpalæet, Copenhagen (performers: Anton Svendsen, violin; Holger Møller, violin; F. Marke, viola; Ernst Høeberg, cello). Carl Nielsen. First public performance. Review: Nationaltidende, 4 Feb. 1898 (Gustav Hetsch). |
| 2 Mar. 1898 | Frimurerlogen, Copenhagen (performers: Anton Svendsen, violin; Holger Møller, violin; Frederik Marke, viola; Ernst Høeberg, cello). Kammermusikforeningen. |
| 16 Nov. 1899 | Copenhagen. Private Chamber Music Society (Privat Kammermusikforening). |
| 9 Mar. 1904 | Odd Fellow Palæet, Copenhagen (Marke-Kvartetten; performers: Frederik Marke, violin; Oscar Schmidt, violin; Julius Borup, viola; Eiler Jensen, cello). Marke-Kvartetten. |
| 22 Mar. 1904 | Odd Fellow Palæet, Copenhagen (Marke-Kvartetten; performers: Frederik Marke, violin; Oscar Schmidt, violin; Julius Borup, viola; Eiler Jensen, cello). Kammermusikforeningen. |
| 27 Oct. 1904 | Copenhagen (performers: Frederik Marke, violin; Oskar Schmidt, violin; Julius Borup, viola; Eiler Jensen, cello). Frederiksberg Kammermusikforening. |
| 11 Apr. 1913 | Studenterforeningen, Copenhagen (performers: Fini Henriques, violin; Carl Nielsen, violin; Thorvald Nielsen, viola; Carl Meyer, cello). Musiksamfundet. |
| 15 Nov. 1918 | Stora Börssalen, Gothenburg (Göteborgskvartetten; performers: Francesco Asti, violin; Stanislaw Dabrowski, violin; Sven Blomquist, viola; Rudolph Claëson, cello). Kanmmarmusikföreningen i Göteborg. |
| 12 Dec. 1925 | Ingeniørforeningens Lokaler, Copenhagen (performers: Fini Henriques, violin; Mogens Hansen, violin; Ove Helsted, viola; Carl Bretton-Meyer, cello). |
| 2 Mar. 1928 | Radiostudie(?), Gothenburg (Göteborg Kvartetten). |
Documents
Letters:
Diary entries:
Other other:
Helge Wamberg (interviewer) and Carl Nielsen (interviewee): 'Hvad siger Kunstnerne om Kritiken?'. Pressens Magasin, 11, 1 June 1918. (SamtidJohn Fellow (ed.): Carl Nielsen til sin samtid. Det Kongelige Bibliotek/Gyldendal: Copenhagen 1999. 60)
Jørgen [Jørgen Rode] (interviewer) and Carl Nielsen (interviewee): 'Fra Hyrdedreng og Hornblæser til Danmarks største Komponist'. Politiken, 26 Nov. 1927. (SamtidJohn Fellow (ed.): Carl Nielsen til sin samtid. Det Kongelige Bibliotek/Gyldendal: Copenhagen 1999. 139)
Bibliography
Erik Abrahamsen: 'Carl Nielsen', in: Svend Dahl and Povl Engelstoft (eds.): Dansk biografisk Haandleksikon, vol.2 (Gyldendal Nordisk Forlag: Copenhagen 1923), pp. 752–53.
Edward Shawe: 'Carl Nielsen'. The Canon, 10/1, Aug. 1956, pp. 17–21.
Robert Layton: 'Nielsen and the String Quartet'. The Listener, 64/1637, Aug. 1960, p. 238.
Lena Skov: Carl Nielsens tidlige kammermusik: Karakteristiske stiltræk i Carl Nielsens kammermusik for 4-5 strygeinstrumenter indtil ca. 1906. University of Copenhagen: 1974. Speciale.
Charles M. Joseph: 'Structural Pacing in the Nielsen String Quartets', in: Mina Miller (ed.): The Carl Nielsen Companion (London 1994), pp. 460–88.
Friedhelm Krummacher: 'Steps to Modernism: Carl Nielsen's String Quartets'. Carl Nielsen Studies, 2, 2005, pp. 89–131.
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