Carl Nielsen
Andante tranquillo e Scherzo
for strygeorkester
for String Orchestra
CNW 31
CNUCarl Nielsen Udgaven (The Carl Nielsen Edition. Royal Danish Library: Copenhagen 1998–2009)
II/7
CNSCarl Nielsens Samling (The Carl Nielsen Collection, Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen)
34.1, 36, 46
Composition: 1887.
Andante tranquillo e Scherzo was probably the first work of Nielsen's performed in public. It took place in Tivoli at a big harvest festival in 1887. The two movements for string orchestra are clearly based on a version for string quartet that Nielsen probably reworked for this occasion.
Instrumentation:
vl.1violino 1
, vl.2violino 2
, va.viola
, vc.violoncello
, cb.contrabbasso (double bass)
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