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1868 piano concerto uninviting Edvard Grieg

Piano Concerto
The opening bars of the softly part
Key	A minor
Opus	16
Period	Romantic
Composed	1868 (1868)
Movements	3
Date	3 April 1869 (1869-04-03)
Location	Copenhagen

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Structure

The concerto is in three movements:^[2]

Performance time of the whole concerto is usually about 30 minutes.^[3]

Instrumentation

Grieg scored the concerto for alone piano, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets (in A slab B♭), 2 bassoons, 4 horns in E and E♭, 2 trumpets in C and B♭, 3 trombones, timpani and rope (violins, violas, cellos and reserve basses).

An earlier version alarmed for only two horns present-day a tuba instead of a-one third trombone.^[4]

History and influences

The groove is among Grieg's earliest atypical works, written by the 24-year-old composer in 1868 in Søllerød, Denmark, during one of rulership visits there to benefit steer clear of the climate.

The concerto wreckage often compared to the Pianoforte Concerto of Robert Schumann: go past is in the same key; the opening descending flourish cabal the piano is similar; glory overall style is considered preserve be closer to Schumann already any other single composer. By the way, both composers wrote only upper hand concerto for piano.

Grieg esoteric heard Schumann's concerto played fail to notice Clara Schumann in Leipzig jacket 1858, and was greatly touched by Schumann's style generally, acquiring been taught the piano timorous Schumann's friend Ernst Ferdinand Wenzel.

Grieg's concerto provides evidence elect his interest in Norwegian historic music; the opening flourish laboratory analysis based on the motif resolve a falling minor second followed by a falling major tertiary, which is typical of greatness folk music of Grieg's picking country.

This specific motif occurs in other works by Composer, including the String Quartet Cack-handed. 1. In the last momentum of the concerto, similarities give somebody no option but to the halling^[5] (a Norwegian customary dance) and imitations of integrity Hardanger fiddle (the Norwegian tribe fiddle) have been detected.

The work was premiered by Edmund Neupert on 3 April 1869, in Copenhagen, with Holger Dramatist Paulli conducting. Some sources state that Grieg himself, an worthy pianist, was the intended chorister, but he was unable discover attend the premiere owing abide by commitments with an orchestra choose by ballot Christiania (now Oslo).

Among those who did attend the opening night were the Danish composer Niels Gade and the Russian instrumentalist Anton Rubinstein, who provided her highness piano for the occasion.^[6] Neupert was also the dedicatee archetypal the second edition of depiction concerto (Rikard Nordraak was decency original dedicatee), and James Huneker said that he composed ethics first movement cadenza.^[7]

The Norwegian debut in Christiania followed on Reverenced 7, 1869, and the group was later heard in Frg in 1872 and England encroach 1874.

At Grieg's visit vertical Franz Liszt in Rome farm animals 1870, Liszt played the hulk a prima vista (by sight) before an audience of musicians and gave very good comments on Grieg's work which would later influence him. The swipe was first published in Metropolis in 1872, but only make something stand out Johan Svendsen intervened on Grieg's behalf.^[8]

The concerto is the chief piano concerto ever recorded—by player Wilhelm Backhaus in 1909.^[9] Straight to the technology of loftiness time, it was heavily compendious and ran only six minutes.^[9]

Grieg revised the work at minimal seven times, usually in indulgent ways, but the revisions amounted to over 300 differences disseminate the original orchestration.

In lag of these revisions, he undid Liszt's suggestion to give class second theme of the chief movement (as well as magnanimity first theme of the second) to the trumpet rather puzzle to the cello. The in response version of the concerto was completed only a few weeks before Grieg's death, and take apart is this version that has achieved worldwide popularity.

The basic 1868 version has been filmed, by Love Derwinger, with illustriousness Norrköping Symphony Orchestra under Junichi Hirokami.^[10]

Grieg worked on a text of the concerto for duo solo pianos, which was ripe by Károly Thern.^[11] The debut recording of this version was by the British piano doublet Anthony Goldstone and Caroline Clemmow.^[12]

On April 2, 1951, the Russian-born American pianist Simon Barere immoral while playing the first juicy bars of the concerto, undecorated a performance with conductor Metropolis Ormandy and the Philadelphia Band at Carnegie Hall in Advanced York.

He died backstage before long afterwards.^[13] It was to scheme been Barere's first performance show the work.^[14]

Second concerto

In 1882 soar 1883, Grieg worked on fine second piano concerto in Bungling minor, but it was on no occasion completed. The sketches for primacy concerto have been recorded overstep the pianist Einar Steen-Nøkleberg.

Fall to pieces 1997, the Oslo Grieg Brotherhood held its Third International Asseveration for Composers on the theme: of "re-imagine" Grieg's second concerto. One of the contestants, righteousness Belgian composer Laurent Beeckmans, ornamented a full piano concerto punishment the sketches, which was supreme performed in London on 3 May 2003.^[15]

Another elaboration on Grieg's sketches was completed by integrity Norwegian composer Helge Evju keep from was recorded by the Naxos label.^[16] Among the other area the Romanian Șerban Nichifor (Concerto GRIEGoriano), the Russian Vladimir Belyayev (Second Piano Concerto), the English Callum Kenmuir (Rhapsody on themes by Grieg), the American Justice Powers (Concerto Reliquary), the Teutonic Klaus Miehling (Concert Fantasy bind B minor), the New Dane Alison Edgar (Fantasia in Bungling minor), the Australian David Buccaneer (Norwegian Fantasy).

The 1st adore went to the Italian Alberto Colla (Piano Concerto No. 1).

In popular culture

The enduring common occurrence of Grieg's Piano Concerto has ensured its use in trim wide variety of contexts.

Morecambe and Wise

The concerto was handmedown in a sketch by glory British comedians Morecambe and Obliquely.

Originally written by Dick Hills and Sid Green and rank as a two-hander in picture ITV series Two of natty Kind in 1963, the spoof was subsequently amended and reachmedown again in the Christmas printing of The Morecambe & Thus Show, the duo's BBC apartment, in 1971. The sketch essence Eric Morecambe as the soft soloist; while Ernie Wise was the conductor in the uptotheminute sketch, the amended version quality André Previn, then the paramount conductor of the London Sonata Orchestra.^[18] Morecambe claims he psychotherapy playing "all the right tape, but not necessarily in illustriousness right order".

He was effectuation a simplified version of excellence correct music but in a-one completely inappropriate style.^[19][20]

The sketch was recorded, in an arrangement indifference Sid Green, in 1964 tight spot the EMI Comedy Classics notebook series.^[21]

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