Andantino - Allegro appassionato - Allegretto - Allegro molto

• Year of composition: Leipzig, January 1849
• Work category: Orchestral works in one movement
• First performed: Easter 1849, in connection with a final performance at the Leipzig Conservatory; it was performed in Sweden for the first time on 24 May, 1851 in the De la Croix's Salon, Stockholm, with the Kungliga Hovkapellet [i.e, the orchestra of the Royal Swedish Opera] under the baton of Jacopo Foroni (according to Gunhild Karle)
• Duration: 10 min
• Detailed duration: 10'28 (computer printout)

Instrumentation

3*.2.2.2 / 4.2.3.0 / timp / str
(picc)

• Location autograph: Musik- och teaterbiblioteket
• Possible call no. and autograph comment: Normans samling [the Ludvig Norman collection] M-Å. One hardcover copy (complete score) and one incomplete score (the latter submitted by Prof. Ernst Ellberg in 1922), and parts

Literature

Karle, Gunhild: Ludvig Norman och Kungl. Hovkapellet i Stockholm 1861-90. Med flera., pp. 113-14 (Uppsala 2006) [in Swedish, only]

Description of work

Andantino A minor 6/8, 48 bars, Allegro appassionato, 38 bars, A major, 290 bars, Allegretto, 19 bars, Allegro molto, 66 bars, in total 461 bars