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Technical Notice
| Classical Composer: | Nielsen, Carl |
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| Work: | Violin Concerto, Op. 33, FS 61 |
| Year Composed: | 1911 |
| Instrumentation: | 2.2.2.2/4.2.3.0/timp/str |
| Publishers: |
G. Schirmer, Inc. Sikorski The Edwin A. Fleisher Music Collection Hansen House Edition Wilhelm Hansen |
| Duration: | 00:35:00 |
| Period: | 20th Century |
| Work Category: | Concerto |
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The Violin Concerto was started in the summer of 1911 on a visit to the home of Nina Grieg, the widow of Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg. Nielsen composed in an idyllic setting at Grieg's hut in Troldhaugen, near Bergen. He completed the work in December of that year and conducted its first performance in February 1912. Nielsen had wanted the concerto to be 'popular and showy without being superficial': the result is a work that is relaxed and affable. It eschews the conventional three-movement form in favour of two movements, each of which starts with a slower section. The first movement begins with a Praeludium (Largo). This is largely improvisatory in flavour with its cadenza and gypsy-like flourishes, but a period of repose ends it and leads into the noble Allegro cavalleresco. The Poco adagio of the second movement takes on the role of a classical concerto's slow movement. It pays tribute to Bach, the oboe playing the notes E flat, A, C, E natural (B A C H in German nomenclature). Nielsen considered the Rondo, marked Allegretto scherzando, that follows to be 'vacillating, almost aimless, but nice and charming like an earnestly smiling layabout on a better day'.
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