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Niels W. Gade

Fantasiestücke für Klarinette (oder Violine) und Klavier

Fantasistykker for Clarinet (eller Violin) og Pianoforte

Fantasy Pieces for Clarinet (or Violin) and Pianoforte

Opus 43
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Dedicatee: Kgl. Kapelmusicus (Member of the Royal Danish Orchestra)Christopher Mozart Petersen

Composition: 1864.

The dedicatee, Christopher Mozart Petersen (1817-74), is one of the most famous Danish clarinettists ever.

Instrumentation: cl.clarinetto (clarinet) or, vl.violino , pf.pianoforte (piano)

Music

1.

Andantino con moto

Key: F major

2.

Allegro vivace

Key: B♭ major

3. Ballade

Moderato

Key: G minor

4.

Allegro molto vivace

Key: A♭ major

Sources

Score and parts, autograph, fair copy

[Classification: Notated music, Manuscript, Autograph, Score and parts, Fair copy, Complete]

DK-KkDet Kongelige Bibliotek, København C II, 6 Gades Samling 276 (Kapsel F - J).

Score

14 pages; 35 x 26 cm.

Title page: Fantasiestykker / for / Clarinet (eller Violin) og Pianoforte / tilegnede / Hr Mozart Petersen / af / Niels W. Gade / Op. 43. / Kistner Leipzig. / 1864.

3 bifolios and 1 inserted single folio. Written in ink. Paper: 16 staves. Paginated pp. 1-12 b. Last page blank.

Part

6 pages; 34.5 x 25.5 cm.

1 bifolio (movements 1, 3 and 4) and 1 oblong folio with the second movement. Written in ink. Paper: 20 staves & 16 staves.

Parts, print, German edition

[Classification: Notated music, Print, Parts, First edition, Complete]

Fr. Kistner, Leipzig September 1864.

13 pages (piano part); 4 pages (clarinet part); 4 pages (violin part).

Title page: FANTASIESTÜCKE / für / Clarinette (od. Violine) u. Pianoforte / componirt / und / HERRN KAMMERMUSIKER / MOZART PETERSEN / gewidmet / von / NIELS W. GADE. / Op. 43. Pr. 1 Thlr. 7½ Ngr. / Eigenthum des Verlegers / Eingetragen in das Vereins-Archiv. / LEIPZIG, FR. KISTNER. / 2850.

Pl. no.2850.

Gade's personal copy

DK-KkDet Kongelige Bibliotek, København C II, 6 Gades Samling 145 b, D72.

Parts, print, Danish edition

[Classification: Notated music, Print, Parts, Later edition, Complete]

Wilhelm Hansen, Copenhagen 1878.

19 pages (piano part); 4 pages (clarinet part); 4 pages (violin part).

Title page: Fantasistykker / for / Clarinet (eller Violin) og Pianoforte / komponerede / og / Hr. kgl. Kammermusikus / Mozart Petersen / tilegnede / af / NIELS W. GADE. / Op. 43 / KJÖBENHAVN / Wilhelm Hansens Forlag og Eiendom.

Pl. no.3537.

Gade's personal copy

DK-KkDet Kongelige Bibliotek, København C II, 6 Gades Samling 145 a; D72.

Performances

24 Mar. 1865	Casino, Copenhagen (Christopher Mozart Petersen, clarinet; Niels W. Gade, piano). First performance.
24 Oct. 1868	Copenhagen (Christopher Mozart Petersen, clarinet; David Noack, piano). A soirée at Studenter-Sangforeningen.
1875-76 season	St. Petersburg.
1876-77 season	Tonkünstlerverein, Dresden.
Jan. 1878	London.
2 Mar. 1879	Leipzig.
18 Apr. 1880	Paderborn.
15 Dec. 1880	Casino, Copenhagen (Hr. Mathiasen, clarinet; G.A. Lembcke, piano).
22 Jan. 1883	Tonkünstlerverein, Dresden.
21 Apr. 1883	Sondershausen.
24 Apr. 1884	Musikforeningen, Aarhus.
17 Oct. 1885	Zwickau.

Documents

Last changed 2022-12-02 by MerMEId

11 June 1864, Leipzig	from Fr. Kistner (Carl Gurckhaus) to Niels W. Gade, DK-KkDet Kongelige Bibliotek, København NKS 1716 fol.folio A no. 313. (Niels W. Gade og hans europæiske kreds no. 438)
18 Nov. 1880, Köln	from Niels W. Gade to Mathilde Gade, DK-KkDet Kongelige Bibliotek, København Acc 2007/1. (Niels W. Gade og hans europæiske kreds no. 1033)
7 Feb. 1885, London	from Leonard Beddom to Niels W. Gade, DK-KkDet Kongelige Bibliotek, København NKS 1716 fol.folio A no 23. (Niels W. Gade og hans europæiske kreds no. 1240)

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