Carl Nielsen
Kvartet for to violiner, bratsch og cello, opus 14
Quartet for Two Violins, Viola and Cello, Opus 14
Opus 14
CNW 57
CNUCarl Nielsen Udgaven (The Carl Nielsen Edition. Royal Danish Library: Copenhagen 1998–2009)
II/10
CNSCarl Nielsens Samling (The Carl Nielsen Collection, Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen)
40
FSDan Fog & Torben Schousboe: Carl Nielsen kompositioner. En Bibliografi. København 1965.
23
Dedicatee: Edvard Grieg
Composition: 1897–98.
The quartet, Op. 14, was composed in 1897–98, while Nielsen was running Thygesminde, the farm of his parents-in-law near Kolding, Jutland. He presumably started on the quartet during summer 1897, finishing the first movement in December. After half a year he resumed composing, though not without problems. It is not known when the work was completed. The Nielsen and Grieg families were close friends, but beyond this none of the sources shed more light on the composer's reason for dedicating it to Edvard Grieg.
Key: E♭ major
Music
1.
Allegro con brioKey: E♭ major
2.
Andante sostenutoKey: E♭ major
3.
Allegretto pastoraleKey: C minor
4. Finale
Allegro coraggiosoKey: E♭ major
Sources
Sketches
Score, draft
Part (vc.), autograph
Score, print
Score, print
Reprint of 1900 edition.
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Emil Telmányi's copy
DK-KkDet Kongelige Bibliotek, København CNSCarl Nielsens Samling (The Carl Nielsen Collection, Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen) C II, 10.CNU Source G.
Parts, print
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Carl Nielsen's copy
DK-KkDet Kongelige Bibliotek, København CNSCarl Nielsens Samling (The Carl Nielsen Collection, Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen) 38d.CNU Source B.
Parts, print
Reprint of the 1900 edition.
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Emil Telmányi's copy
CNU Source H.
Performances
| 1 May 1899 | Copenhagen (performers: Anton Svendsen, violin; Ludvig Holm, violin; Frederik Marke, viola; Ejler Jensen, cello). Vor Forening. First performance. |
| 4 Oct. 1901 | Odd Fellow Palæet, Copenhagen (performers: Georg Høeberg, violin; Louis Witzansky, violin; Anton Bloch, viola; Ernst Høeberg, cello). First public performance (?) Reviews: Nationaltidende, 5 Oct. 1901 (Gustav Hetsch). Adresseavisen Kjøbenhavn, 5 Oct. 1901. Politiken, 5 Oct. 1901 (Charles Kjerulf). Kristelig Dagblad, 7 Oct. 1901. Illustreret Tidende, 24 Nov. 1901 (Hother Ploug). Allgemeine Zeitung, 7 Mar. 1902. Musikalisches Wochenblatt, 16 Oct. 1902. |
| 15 Oct. 1901 | Standards Festsal, Copenhagen (performers: Georg Høeberg, violin; Louis Witzansky, violin; Anton Bloch, viola; Ernst Høeberg, cello). Kammermusikforeningen. |
| 20 Dec. 1901 | Copenhagen (?). Musikselskabet af 14. Marts 1896 Evidence: Claus Røllum-Larsen: 'Musikselskabet af 14. Marts 1896'. Fund og forskning, 57, 2018, p. 157. |
| 21 Nov. 1902 | Odd Fellow Palæet, Copenhagen (performers: Georg Høeberg, violin; Louis Witzansky, violin; Anton Bloch, viola; Ernst Høeberg, cello). Private Chamber Music Society (Privat Kammermusikforening). |
| 22 Nov. 1902 | Odd Fellow Palæet, Copenhagen (performers: Georg Høeberg, violin; Louis Witzansky, violin; Anton Bloch, viola; Ernst Høeberg, cello). Private Chamber Music Society (Privat Kammermusikforening). |
| 1 Dec. 1902 | Odd Fellow Palæet, Copenhagen (performers: Georg Høeberg, violin; Louis Witzansky, violin; Anton Bloch, viola; Ernst Høeberg, cello). Kammermusikforeningen. |
| 28 Nov. 1912 | Studenterforeningen, Copenhagen (performers: Ludvig Holm, violin; Johannes Schiørring, violin; Kristian Sandby, viola; Ernst Høeberg, cello). Kammermusikforeningen. |
| 3 Apr. 1916 | Østerbros Teater, Copenhagen (performers: Gunna Breuning-Storm, violin; Johannes Schiørring, violin; Frederik Marke, viola; Paulus Bache, cello). Østerbro Kammermusik Forening. |
| 3 Mar. 1917 | Odd Fellow Palæet, Copenhagen (performers: Peder Møller, violin; Sofus Andersen, violin; William Andersen, viola; Louis Jensen, cello). Dansk Koncert-Forening. |
| 10 Jan. 1919 | Hornung & Møllers Koncertsal, Copenhagen (performers: Gunna Breuning-Storm, violin; Thorvald Nielsen, violin; Ella Faber, viola; Paulus Bache, cello). |
| 27 Mar. 1919 | Casinos Koncertsal, Copenhagen (performers: Emil Telmányi, violin; Henry Holst, violin; Thorvald Nielsen, viola; Louis Jensen, cello). |
| 12 Jan. 1921 | Hornung & Møllers Koncertsal, Copenhagen (performers: Gunna Breuning-Storm, violin; Ella Faber, violin; Gerhard Rafn, viola; Paulus Bache, cello). |
| 14 Jan. 1921 | Hornung & Møllers Koncertsal, Copenhagen (performers: Gunna Breuning-Storm, violin; Ella Faber, violin; Gerhard Rafn, viola; Paulus Bache, cello). |
| 24 Feb. 1921 | Klindworth-Scharwenka Saal, Berlin (Breuning-Bache Kvartetten). |
| 24 May 1921 | Stenmans Kunstsalong, Helsinki (Breuning-Bache Kvartetten). |
| 12 Oct. 1922 | Industribygningens Festsal, Copenhagen (performers: Gunna Breuning-Storm, violin; Gerhard Rafn, violin; Ella Faber, viola; Paulus Bache, cello). |
| 23 Mar. 1923 | Odd Fellow Palæet, Copenhagen (Breuning-Bache Kvartetten). |
| 10 Apr. 1923 | Roskilde (Breuning-Bache Kvartetten). |
| 4 Oct. 1923 | Hotel Aalborg, Thisted (performers: Peder Møller, violin; Fini Henriques, violin; Ingemann Palmhøj, viola; Louis Jensen, cello). |
| 23 Nov. 1923 | Konservatoriets Sal, Paris (Breuning-Bache Kvartetten). |
| 21 Nov. 1925 | University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen (performers: Gunna Breuning-Storm, violin; Gerhard Rafn, violin; Ella Faber, viola; Paulus Bache, cello). |
| 30 Nov. 1925 | KFUM's Festsal, Aarhus (performers: Peder Møller, violin; Thyge Houmøller, violin; Jørgen Nielsen, viola; Emil Robert-Hansen, cello). |
| 19 Oct. 1927 | Börse, Prague (Thorvald Nielsen Strygekvartetten). |
| 14 Nov. 1928 | Radiostudie(?), Brno. |
| 17 Jan. 1929 | Industribygningens Festsal, Copenhagen (performers: Thorvald Nielsen, violin; Erling Bloch, violin; Hans Kassow, viola; composer: Louis Jensen, cello). |
| 21 Apr. 1931 | Axelborg, Copenhagen (performers: Thorvald Nielsen, violin; Erling Bloch, violin; Hans Kassow, viola; Louis Jensen, cello). |
Documents
Letters:
Diary entries:
Other other:
Carl Nielsen: 'Smaa Tanker om store Ting'. Nationaltidende, 8 June 1925. (SamtidJohn Fellow (ed.): Carl Nielsen til sin samtid. Det Kongelige Bibliotek/Gyldendal: Copenhagen 1999. 95)
Bibliography
'Smaa Tanker om store Ting'. Nationaltidende, 8 June 1925.
Rudolph Bergh: 'Fra opera og koncertsal'. Tilskueren, 19, 1902, pp. 262–68.
Robert Layton: 'Nielsen and the String Quartet'. The Listener, 64/1637, Aug. 1960, p. 238.
Lena Skov: Carl Nielsens tidlige kammermusik: Karakteristiske stiltræk i Carl Nielsens kammermusik for 4-5 strygeinstrumenter indtil ca. 1906. University of Copenhagen: 1974. Speciale.
Charles M. Joseph: 'Structural Pacing in the Nielsen Quartets', in: Mina Miller (ed.): The Carl Nielsen Companion (London 1994), pp. 460–88.
Friedhelm Krummacher: 'Steps to Modernism. Carl Nielsen's String Quartets', 2, 2005, pp. 89–131.
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