• Year of composition: 1941
• Work category: Orchestral works in one movement
• First performed: 17 September 1941, at the Stockholm Konserthus [Concert Hall]. Konsertföreningens orkester [now the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra] conducted by Carl Garaguly.
• Duration: 20 min

Instrumentation

3*.2.2.2 / 4.2.3.1 / timp, 4—5 perc, hp, cel / str
(picc)

Examples of printed editions

Edition Suecia, Stockholm, 1949

Description of work

[Tema:] Andantino A minor 3/4, 25 bars
Var. I: L'istesso tempo, 24 bars
Var. II: Un poco più mosso 6/4, 19 bars
Var. III: Allegro energico. Molto rigiroso [sic!] 4/4 (C) (with an inserted bar in 2/4), 20 bars
Var. IV: L'istesso tempo, 16 bars (8/:8:/)
Var. V: Andantino 6/4, 12 bars
Var. VI: Andante serioso 4/4 (C) and 6/4 (also an inserted bar in 7/4), 47 bars
Var. VII: Andante grazioso alla breve (with two inserted bars in 3/2), 62 bars
Var. VIII: Andantino F minor 3/4 (with two inserted bars in 5/4 and one bar in 4/4 (C)), 22 bars
Var. IX: Allegro furioso A minor 4/4 (C), 29 bars
Var. X: L'istesso tempo ma con gravità, 30 bars, Allegro molto 3/4 (with an inserted bar in 4/4 (C) at the end), 32 bars, in total 62 bars
Var. XI: Meno allegro. Molto rigoroso F-sharp minor 3/4, Fugue: Allegro molto energico e rigoroso F-sharp minor 3/4, 25 bars, Meno mosso A minor 4/4 (C) (with an inserted bar in 5/4), 11 bars, Fuga [Fugue]: Allegro molto energico e rigoroso (4/4 (C), with an inserted bar in 3/4 and two bars in /4), 57 bars, Andante 3/4, 4 bars, Allegro 4/4 (C) and 3/4, 2 bars, Andante 3/4, 3 bars, Allegro 5/4 och 4/4 (C), 2 bars, Andante 3/4, 8 bars, Allegro (3/4), 27 bars, Animato 5/4 (the second bar in 3/4+3/8), 3 bars, Grandioso. Molto meno mosso 6/4, 1 bar, Allargando 4/4 (C), 3 bars, in total 146 bars

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