Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ...theme: The second, of which this is the leading motive, No. 9. is in G minor, and scored for clarinets, first violins, violas and violoncellos. Both are in two short sections, each of which repeats. At the conclusion of the second Minuet the first is replayed without repeats, the violas being-added in the brief coda which completes the movement. The fifth movement is another Scherzo--in D major, Allegro and 3-4 time--although it is neither so long nor so elaborate as the second movement. The first part (the Scherzo proper) is developed from the following theme, announced by the solo horn with a counter-melody in the violoncellos: No. 10.--F In the Trio the horn again carries the theme, against running figurations in the violas and violoncellos:--No. 11. Horns. This Trio is in two sections, both repeating, and is followed by a repetition of the Scherzo. The sixth and last movement is a brilliant rondo--in D major, Allegro and 2-4 time--for which two quotations will suffice--the first theme, given out at the start by the violoncellos, clarinets and bassoons; and the second, which comes in the first violins, accompanied by running triplet figurations in the violas--all over long sustained tones in the horns and violoncellos. Concerto for Pianoforte, Edvard Hagerup Grieg. y. Minor, OpUS iS, BTM June I5, 1843, at Bergen, Norway. This beautiful composition was performed for the first time in public by the composer himself--in 1879, at a concert given at the Gewandhaus in Leipsic; and the brilliant success which it achieved at that time has suffered no diminution.during the score and more of years which have since intervened. Grieg's published compositions have reached a total of seventy or so, from which it will be seen that his pianoforte concerto is one of his ...
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