Svendsen, Johan

Andante sostenuto av Franz Schubert

(Andante sostenuto af F. Schubert instrumentert af Johan S. Svendsen)

Andante sostenuto by Franz Schubert

Original title: Franz Schubert (1797-1828): Klaviersonate nr. 21 B-Dur, D-960 (1828), II. Andante sostenuto

JSV 50

Johan Svendsen completed his orchestration of Franz Schubert’s (1797–1828) Andante Sostenuto on 31 May 1872 in Donndorf near Bayreuth. A complete set of parts has been preserved in Svendsen’s handwriting, but we know of no performances of the work. Schubert’s original Andante sostenuto is the second movement of his Piano Sonata in B-flat major, D. 960 (1828). This was not the first time Svendsen had arranged a work by Schubert. During a longer stay in Paris in 1869, he had orchestrated Schubert’s Divertissement à la Hongroise, D. 818, originally for piano four-hands.

Composition: 31 May 1872.

Donndorf bei Bayreuth

Key: C♯ major

Extent: ca. 10 min.

Sources

A: Score, autograph

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

21 pages; 27x34 cm.

Title page: instrumentert / af / Johan S. Svendsen / Donndorf bei Bayreuth / -mai 1872

Hand ruled music paper, 18 staves
Pagination: 1–21
At the end of the score: Donndorf bei Bayreuth / den 31 Mai 1872 / JSvendsen

Written in ink (Johan Svendsen).

N-Onm (National Library of Norway, Oslo, Norway) Mus.ms. 7886. Facsimile

A^PTS: Parts, autograph

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

35x26 cm.

Title page: Andante sostenuto / af / F. Schubert / instrumenteret / af / Johan S. Svendsen

Complete set of parts: 2222 4230 timpani. Strings: vl. I (4x), vl. II (4x), va (2x), vc (2x), kb (2x).

Written in ink (Johan Svendsen). Additions in pencil.

N-Onm (National Library of Norway, Oslo, Norway) Mus.ms.a 2898. Facsimile

B: Printed edition of Schubert's original

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

Anton Diabelli,, Wien 1839.

Title page: FRANZ SCHUBERT. / SONATEN / Für das PIANO allein.

Pl. no. D.& C. 3849.