Septet for Clarinet, Bassoon, Horn, Violin, Viola, Violoncello, Double Bass (Full Score, hardback)

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Berwald Septet for Clarinet in B-flat, Bassoon, Horn, Violin, Viola, Violoncello, Double Bass (Full Score, hardback)

FRANZ BERWALD (1796-1868) is regarded today not only as one of Sweden's most important composers, but also, due to his symphonies and his chamber music, as a leading figure in the history of Northern European music of the 19th century.  His compositions include, in addition to four symphonies and the chamber music, tone poems for orchestra, concertos, operas ("Estrella di Soria" and "The Queen of Golconda"), cantatas, solo songs with piano accompaniment, piano music and much more.

On January 10, 1818 a septet for clarinet, bassoon, horn and strings by Franz Berwald was performed in Stockholm.  It was played again on December 7, 1819, but after that it disappeared from the repertoire.  A work by Berwald with the same scoring was performed on December 6, 1828, and was designated in the press as "new".  Whether this was an entirely new composition or only a revision or reworking of the older one remained uncertain, since all the known sources contained only one and the same work, or rather, one version of the work.  (Even Berwald himself, in a letter from Berlin to his sisters in Stockholm written at the end of 1829, mentions only one septet: "None of the music that I have left behind in Sweden, except for the septet and the serenade, should be performed; don't forget that."

In the present critical edition the version of 1828 is reproduced as the main text, for which there is an autograph by Berwald.  The divergencies of the earlier version are published in the Appendix in the full score (BA4910) (for the first movement, only those bars in which the music text deviates from the later version; for the sake of a better overview, however, the finale is presented in its entirety).

- Urtext of the Berwald Complete Edition

- Full score hardback (BA4910) and set of parts (BA8514) available for sale

Eppstein, Hans
BA4910-01
9790006460397
Baerenreiter Germany

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Romantic
Chamber Ensemble