Svendsen, Johan

Ungarsk rapsodi nr. 6 av Franz Liszt

(Franz Liszt’s 6te ”Rhapsodie hongroise” für grosses Orchester frei bearbeitet von Johan S. Svendsen)

Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6 by Franz Liszt

Original title: Franz Liszt (1811-1886): Rhapsodie hongroise No. 6 (1853) S. 244/6. (For Piano)

JSV 44

Johan Svendsen’s orchestration of Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6 was completed in New York in July 1871. It received its premiere together with many other new works on 26 October 1872 in Christiania (Oslo), Norway. By concluding several of his concerts with the Liszt rhapsodies, Svendsen communicated that he was a progressive musician positioned right at the centre of the modern international music scene. Although the manuscript title of the sixth rhapsody includes the term ‘frei bearbeitet’, Svendsen adhered far more strictly to the original number of bars than the later Liszt-Doppler orchestration, where bars are added or removed compared with the piano version. Furthermore, Svendsen kept the original key in both of his orchestrations of Liszt rhapsodies.

The Liszt rhapsodies orchestrated by Svendsen were originally composed for piano under the title Rhapsodie hongroise. Altogether, Liszt wrote 19 such Hungarian rhapsodies between 1846 and 1885. The sixth rhapsody, composed in 1853, was dedicated to Count Antoine d’Appony and published the same year by Charles Haslinger in Vienna. In 1875, eight years after Svendsen’s first orchestration, six of the rhapsodies were released by J. Schuberth, Leipzig, in orchestra versions that were the result of a collaboration between Liszt and Franz Doppler (1821–1883). No. 6 was published as No. 3, transposed to D major.

Composition: 6 July 1872.

New-York

Tempo giusto

Key: D♭ major

Extent: ca. 7:30 min.

Sources

A: Score, autograph

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

23 pages; 27x34 cm.

Title page: Franz Liszt’s 6te ”Rhapsodie hongroise” / für / grosses Orchester / frei bearbeitet / von / Johan S. Svendsen / New York i Juli / 1871

Hand ruled music paper, 18 staves
Pagination: 1–23
Soft bound cover
At the end of the score: New-York den 6te Juli / 1871. / JSvendsen

Written in ink (Johan Svendsen). Additions in blue crayon (Johan Svendsen).

N-Onm (National Library of Norway, Oslo, Norway) Mus.ms. 7884. Facsimile

A^PTS: Parts, autograph

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

37,5x29 cm.

Black hardbound folder
On the cover: Orchester-stemmer / Fr. Liszt Rhapsodie hongroise / No6. / J:Svendsen
Above each part: Franz Liszt's 6te "Rhapsodie hongroise"

Picolo 1mo, Picolo 2do, Flauto 1mo, Flauto 2do, Oboe 1mo, Oboe 2do, Clarinetto 1mo in B, Clarinetto 2do in B, Fagot 1mo, Fagot 2mo, Corno 1mo in F, Corno 2do in F, Corno 3die in F, Corno 4de in F, Trompet 1mo in F, Trompet 2do in F, Trombone 1mo, Trombone 2do, Trombone 3die, Tuba, Store og lille Tromme, Triangel og Becken, Tÿmpani in B. F og D., Strings: Violin 1mo, Violin 2do, Viola, Cello, Basso.

Written in ink (Johan Svendsen). Additions in blue crayon and pencil.

N-Onm (National Library of Norway, Oslo, Norway) Mus.ms. 7884. Facsimile

B: Printed edition of Liszt's original

[Classification: notated music, print, score, first edition, complete]

Charles Haslinger, Wien 1853.

Title page: RAPSODIES HONGROISES / pour Le Piano / PAR / Fr. Liszt.

Pl. no. 11.558.