String Quartet No.4, Op.44 (Nielsen, Carl)

Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's	4 movements
Composition Year	1906 (9 February to 2 July) / revised 1919
Genre Categories	Quartets; For 2 violins, viola, cello; Scores featuring the violin; Scores featuring the viola; Scores featuring the cello; For 4 players

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Complete Score
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Editor	Lisbeth Ahlgren Jensen
Publisher. Info.	Vaerker, Series II, No.10 Copenhagen: Carl Nielsen Udgaven / Kongelige Bibliotek, 2004. Made available by courtesy of DCM. © COPYRIGHT NOTICE. THIS FILE IS PROTECTED UNDER COPYRIGHT LAW. However, the lawful copyright owner has released the file for distribution under one of the Creative Commons licenses or the IMSLP Performance Restricted License, which allow for the free distribution (with proper attribution) of the file with various levels of restriction with respect to the creation of derivative works, commercial usage, or public performances.
Copyright	Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 [tag/del/mrg]
Misc. Notes	Digital release of already printed volumes Worth checking their accompanying critical report to see whether "sentimento" is indeed correct for the heading of the second movement; it seems everyone else has sentimentio, presumably attributing it to Nielsen's penchant for unusual movement headers... but as with an infamous instruction in the first (posthumous) full score of Symphony 5, this whole Nielsen edition has been a good opportunity to start getting things right that have traditionally been gotten wrong... Likewise the third movement here and innocente.
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Violin 1
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Violin 2
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Viola
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Cello
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Publisher. Info.	Leipzig: Edition Peters, 1923. Plate 10363.
Copyright	Public Domain [tag/del/mrg]
Misc. Notes	Violin 1 part with dedication by Carl Nielsen
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Work Title	String Quartet No.4
Alternative. Title
Composer	Nielsen, Carl
Opus/Catalogue NumberOp./Cat. No.	Op.19 / 44 (but see below) ; CNW 58)
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No.	ICN 186
Key	F major
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's	4 movements: Allegro non tanto e comodo (F major) Adagio con sentiment[i]o religioso (C major) Allegretto moderato ed innocente (A minor) Molto adagio - Allegro non tanto, ma molto scherzoso (F major)
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp.	1906 (9 February to 2 July) / revised 1919
First Performance.	1907-11-30 in Copenhagen, small hall of the Odd Fellow Palæ (original version)
First Publication.	1923
Average DurationAvg. Duration	25 minutes
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period	Romantic
Piece Style	Early 20th century
Instrumentation	2 violins, viola, cello
External Links	Nielsen catalogue Wikipedia article Edition Silvertrust
Extra Information	First composed as a quartet "Piacevolezza" Op.19, later revised in 1919, published in 1923. Nielsen composed the quartet, Op. 44, between two of his major achievements: the opera Maskarade (CNW 2) and the music for the melodrama Hr. Oluf han rider– (CNW 7). The first two movements of the quartet were dated at the beginning of 1906, while the last two ones were finished in the summer. It seems that the quartet was revised several times, between different performances (1906–12) and up until its publication in 1923.