Piano
SKU:
HL.14030676
Ten
Short Pieces for
Piano. Composed by
Rued Langgaard. Music
Sales America. Classical.
Score. Composed 2020.
Duration 1200 seconds.
Edition Wilhelm Hansen
#KP00666. Published by
Edition Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.14030676).
ISBN
9788759863879.
Danish.
The 'Ten
short piano pieces' with
the title Sommerferie i
Blekinge (Summer Holiday
in Blekinge) (1916) have
not been preserved in
their complete form. The
only existing source is a
manuscript in Rued
Langgaard's hand that
lacks the first and last
pages with sections of
the music. This means
that the entire first
piano piece with the
title Paa rejse
(Travelling) is missing
as well as most of Piece
II, Mode (Meeting) (only
the conclusion of this
piece has been
preserved). A large
fragment exists of Piece
X, Aften med Dans
(Evening with Dancing),
but the conclusion is
missing. The manuscript
is to be found at the
Royal Danish Library in
Copenhagen (RLS 83,2). On
the first page,Langgaard
has merely written 'Piano
Pieces 1916': the real
title and titles of the
movements in the first
two pieces derives from
other sources. In 2008,
the Rued Langgaard
Society asked the Danish
composer Niels Marthinsen
(b. 1963) to add to the
work, the aim being to
create a 'performance
version'. Marthinsen
composed a complete new
first piece - Paa rejse
(Travelling) - and
allowed it to merge with
the preserved concluding
fragment of Langgaard's
second piece, Mode
(Meeting). Niels
Marthinsen further
composed a conclusion to
the incomplete Piece X,
Aften med Dans (Evening
with Dancing), and in it
incorporated a reference
to the first piece, so
that his additions came
to form a frame round
what hasbeen preserved of
Langgaard's work. This
supplemented version was
given its first
performance by Berit
Johansen Tange in 2008.
The overall title and
titles of the individual
pieces refer to a summer
stay in 1913, i.e. three
years before the work was
composed, when the then
20-year-old composed was
on holiday in Kyrkhult in
Blekinge (Sweden).
Even Johansen
