TY - JOUR
T1 - Carl Nielsen’s Flute concerto
T2 - Form and revision of the ending
AU - Flensborg Petersen, Kirsten
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - For the first performance in Copenhagen of the flute concerto Carl Nielsen composed a new ending. In connection with the premiere of the concerto in Paris three months earlier Nielsen had worked under a heavy time pressure, and apparently the composer was not fully satisfied with the result. Both endings are held in the archives today and are available for comparative analysis. Not only is the new ending 72 bars longer than the original, but it also develops ideas from the original ending and changes the structure of the concerto by introducing material from the first movement. With the new ending, the concerto articulates a musical form in which the final chord is no longer the ultimate goal of the whole work to the same degree as was the case with the original ending.
AB - For the first performance in Copenhagen of the flute concerto Carl Nielsen composed a new ending. In connection with the premiere of the concerto in Paris three months earlier Nielsen had worked under a heavy time pressure, and apparently the composer was not fully satisfied with the result. Both endings are held in the archives today and are available for comparative analysis. Not only is the new ending 72 bars longer than the original, but it also develops ideas from the original ending and changes the structure of the concerto by introducing material from the first movement. With the new ending, the concerto articulates a musical form in which the final chord is no longer the ultimate goal of the whole work to the same degree as was the case with the original ending.
KW - Carl Nielsen, 1865-1931
KW - Composers, Denmark, Periodicals
U2 - 10.7146/cns.v2i0.27737
DO - 10.7146/cns.v2i0.27737
M3 - Journal article
SN - 2245-5809
VL - 2
SP - 196
EP - 225
JO - Carl Nielsen Studies
JF - Carl Nielsen Studies
ER -