Ludvig Norman (1831−1885)
Qvartett för 2 Violiner, Altviol och Violoncell (a-moll) [Quartet for 2 Violins, Viola, and Violoncello (in A minor)]
opus 65
1. Allegro agitato
2. Andante sostenuto e cantabile
3. Tempo di Menuetto
4. Finale: Allegro molto vivace
- Year of composition: 1884
- Work category: String quartet
- Duration: 23 min
Examples of printed editions
Stockholm, Julius Bagge (132), Score and parts. (Stich und Druck der Röder'schen Officin in Leipzig) n.d.
Location for score and part material
Musik- och teaterbiblioteket
- Possible call no. and autograph comment: The autograph seems to have been lost. At the Musik- och teaterbiblioteket there is only an arrangement for piano four hands by L. G. Bratt
Literature
Bagge, Julius: Förteckning öfver Ludvig Normans tonverk, upprättad af Julius Bagge [List of works by Ludvig Norman, drawn up by Julius Bagge, p. 29, under the title Unpublished works (Thus, Bagge's edition came later than 1886)]
Wallner, Bo: Den svenska stråkkvartetten I: Klassicism och romantik, s. 81-83 (Kungl. Musikaliska Akademiens skriftserie nr. 24, Stockholm 1979; om Normans kvartetter: s. 71-86) [The Swedish String Quartet. In: Classicism and Romanticism, pp. 81-83 (On the quartets by Norman, please also refer to the publication series of the Royal Swedish Academiy of Music no. 24, pp. 71-86, Stockholm, 1979)]
—— : Wilhelm Stenhammar och hans tid: I, Stockholm 1991, s. 79 f., III, Stockholm. 1991, s. 16 (jämförelse mellan Beethovens a-mollkvartett op. 132, Normans kvartett och Stenhammars a-mollkvartett) [Wilhelm Stenhammar and his time, Vol. I, Stockholm, 1991, pp. 79f.; see also Vol. III, Stockholm, 1991, p. 16, where there is a comparison between the String Quartet in A minor, Opus 132, by Beethoven, this Quartet by Norman, and the one in A minor by Stenhammar]
Rotter, Signe: Studien zu den Streichquartetten von Wilhelm Stenhammar, Bärenreiter 2001, pp. 233-237 (in connection with the analysis of Stenhammar's Quartet in A minor, the author also refers to Norman's Quartet in A minor)
Description of work
1. Allegro agitato A minor 4/4 (C), 42 bars, L'istesso tempo ma agitato, /:78 bars:/, 96 bars, A major, 12 bars, A minor, 45 bars in total 273 bars
2. Andante sostenuto e cantabile F major 3/4, 126 bars
3. Tempo di Menuetto A minor 3/4, 52 bars, Trio A major, 49 bars, Menuetto da capo, A minor, 58 bars, in total 159 bars
4. Finale: Allegro molto vivace A major alla breve, 244 bars