Svendsen, Johan

Sæterjentens Søndag av Ole Bull

The Herd-Girl's Sunday by Ole Bull

(The original included in: Ole Bull (1810-1880): Et Sæterbesøg (1849))

([no]: Sæterjentens Søndag Melodie von Ole Bull; für Streichorchester harmonisirt von Johan S. Svendsen. (Solitude sur la montagne))

JSV 54

 

Dedicatee: Alexius Räder

Ole Bull, ‘the Nordic Paganini’, was a great inspiration to Johan Svendsen, as he was to Edvard Grieg. Sæterjentens Søndag was originally part of Ole Bull’s composition Et Sæterbesøg (A Visit to the Mountain Pasture), a potpourri of melodies written in 1849. Shortly after, Johan Diederich Behrens (1820–1890) equipped on of Bull’s melodies with a text by Jørgen Moe (1813–1882), ‘Paa solen jeg ser’ (I look at the sun), and called it Sætergjentens Søndag. Friedrich August Reissiger (1809–1883) arranged the song for men’s choir and piano in 1851.

Svendsen may have gotten to know the melody through his teacher Fredrik Ursin (1825–1890), who owned a manuscript version for violin and piano. Svendsen’s diary tells us that in 1867, during his journey to Scotland, the Faroe Islands and Iceland, he played Et Sæterbesøg on his violin for a group of French naval officers stationed on the frigate Pandore during a public audience with Iceland’s senior magistrate on 28 June 1867. Svendsen later contributed to the melody’s popularity by arranging it in three versions: for string orchestra, for solo violin and string orchestra, and for violin and piano.

Composition: 1873.

Christiania (Different dating in Benestad, F. and D. Schjelderup-Ebbe (1990). Johan Svendsen: mennesket og kunstneren. [Oslo], Aschehoug): 1872)

Version for String Orchestra

JSV 54a

Instrumentation:
Strings (5-part): vl. 1, vl. 2, va., vc., cb.

Tempo: Adagio

Metre: 4/4

Key: D major

Extent: ca. 3 min.

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Version for Violin solo and String Orchestra

JSV 54b

Instrumentation:
Strings (5-part): vl. 1, vl. 2, va., vc., cb.
Soloist: vl.

Tempo: Adagio

Metre: 4/4

Key: D major

Extent: ca. 3 min.

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Version for Violin and Piano

JSV 54c

Instrumentation:vl. vl., piano

Tempo: Adagio

Metre: 4/4

Key: D major

Extent: ca. 3 min.

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File title:

Sæterjentens Søndag av Ole Bull

File publication:

Norsk Musikkarv (NM)
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Bjarte Engeset (Editor in Chief), Editorial Committee: Morten Christophersen, Bjarte Engeset, Jørn Fossheim, Audun Sannes Jonassen, Jørgen Langdalen, Øyvind Norheim


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