Svendsen, Johan

Klingenberg-Salon-Polka

(Klingenberg-Salon-Polka)

Klingenberg Salon Polka

JSV 3

Before embarking on his studies in Leipzig in 1862, Johan Svendsen (1840–1911) composed a number of works in the popular genres of his time – nine waltzes, two polkas, two galops, two marches, and a bolero. Morten Christophersen’s thesis Panoramic Constraints – A Study of Johan Svendsen’s Musical Sketches and Exercises contains a more than 30-page long stylistic analysis of these compositions. Together with Anna Polka, the autograph manuscripts of Chatarina Waltz, Klingenberg Salon Polka and Bolero are preserved in one bound volume. The three latter works originated in the years 1858–1859, around the same time as Svendsen’s orchestral versions of Anna Polka and To the Mountain Farm. We do not know for what occasion Svendsen wrote the Klingenberg-Salon-Polka and when it had its first performance. It might have been played at one of the concerts Paolo Sperati conducted at that time in the Tivoli Garden, Klingenberg (Christiania).

Composition: Christiania 18 Aug. 1858.

Earliest dating in orchestral parts: 18. august 1858

Key: C major

Extent: ca. 2:30 min.

Sources

A: Score, autograph

[Classification: notated music, manuscript, autograph, score, fair copy]

36 pages; 27x34 cm.

Title page: Klingenberg-Salon-Polka

Brown and white hard cover. On the cover: Partitur / (Orchester)
On the first blank page: Tilhörer / JSvendsen / Chr. d. 15/4-1862
Hand ruled music paper, 12 staves
Unpaginated.

The score contains four works: Chatarina Walzer, Anna-Polka, Klingenberg Salon Polka and Bolero

Written in ink (Johan Svendsen).

DK-Kk (National Library of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark) MA ms 3496. Facsimile

Chatarina-Waltzer 20 pages. Title page: Chatarina-Waltzer / in A. / af / Johan S. Svendsen. / Op. 5. Unpaginated At the end of the score: Christiania den 13de December / 1858 / JSvendsen

Anna-Polka 6 pages. Unpaginated Above the score: Anna-Polka

Klingenberg-Salon-Polka 7 pages. Unpaginated Above the score: Klingenberg-Salon-Polka

Bolero 2 pages. Unpaginated Above the score: Bolero The score of Bolero only contains the following instruments. Cl. II, Ob. I/II and Fg. I/II. But there are parts for more instruments in the collection of parts at Musikmuseet, Copenhagen.

A^PTSN & A^PTSD: Parts, autograph

[Classification: notated music, manuscript, autograph, parts, fair copy]

• Parts in Norway

  34x27,5 cm..

  Written in ink (Johan Svendsen).

  Parts for Flute, Oboe 1/2 and Cornet 1/2, all of them including several works
  The rest of the parts in this set is located at Musikmuseet in Denmark
  The Polka is only present in the Obo 1-2 parts
  Over the first page of the part: Klingenberg-Salon-Polka
  After the part: Chr: d: 5/6-1859 J.S.

  N-Onm (National Library of Norway, Oslo, Norway) Mus.ms. 5160. NBdigital

• Parts in Denmark

  34x27,5 cm..

  Written in ink (Johan Svendsen).

  Picc., Clar. 1, Clar. 2, Fag. 1/2, Cor 1/2, Trbn alto, Trbn./Tuba, Timp., Gran Cassa/Snare Drum, Cassa/Triangolo, Violino I (Anfører), Violino I, Violino I (Fragment), Cello/Basso, Cello/Basso (Fragment).
  The rest of the parts in this set is located at the National Library in Oslo, Norway.

  DK-Kk (Danish Music Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark) Nodemanuskripter .