Cello and piano
SKU:
BR.EB-9391
Urtext
based on the Complete
Edition Jean Sibelius
Works (JSW). Composed
by Jean Sibelius. Edited
by Anna Pulkkis. Solo
instruments; stapled.
Edition Breitkopf.
Late-romantic; Early
modern. Score. 28 pages.
Duration 12'. Breitkopf
and Haertel #EB 9391.
Published by Breitkopf
and Haertel (BR.EB-9391).
ISBN 9790004188651. 9
x 12 inches.
Jean
Sibelius composed far
less music for the cello
than for the violin.
Malinconia (op. 20) -
published in 1911 but
composed in 1900 under
the title Fantasia -
remained his only
opus-numbered work
exclusively for cello and
piano. The Fantasia for
cello and piano, an early
stage of Malinconia , was
premiered at a soiree in
the Solemnity Hall of the
University of Helsinki on
12 March 1900 and was
given positive press
reviews: The work, which
mainly drew attention
with its logical and
clear structure, begins
with a powerful and
substantial cello solo,
to which the piano
responds with a
glimmering series of
arpeggiated chords. At
the end where the
instruments unite in a
harmonious, deeply
emotional song, the
harmonic impression they
create is very bright and
lovely. The autograph
manuscript of Fantasia
shows that Sibelius
omitted a larger passage
of music between the
present bars 24 and 25
and that he made further
revisions to the work,
either before the
publishing process or in
the proofs he read in
April 1911 for
Breitkopf.
