An Arabesque

Eine Arabeske

DCW 74
RT II/7
DCE 12a

Composer: Frederick Delius
Author: J.P. Jacobsen
Translators: Jelka Delius, Philip Heseltine
Dedicatee: Halfdan Jebe

This setting of Jacobsen's 'En Arabesk' (?1868) dates from 1911. The English translation of Jacobsen's text was undertaken by Philip Heseltine, possibly when Delius was living in London in 1915 (RT.1986, 40). The autograph score sets the German words translated by Jelka, to which the English setting was later added.

Composition: 1911.

Instrumentation:

Orchestra: 2 fl., picc.fl., 2 ob., cor.ingl., bass ob., 3 cl., cl.b., 3 fg., sarr., 4 cor., 3 tr. in C, 3 trb., tb., timp., tambo., trgl., xyl., cel., arp., str.

Choir SATB: S., A., T., B.

Soloist: Bar.

Text incipit: Irrtest du je in dunkeln Wäldern, kennst du Pan?
Hast thou in gloomy forests wandered? Knowst thou Pan?

Musical incipit for this work

Sources

Draft score, fragment

[Classification: notated music, manuscript, autograph, score, draft, fragment]

The end of an early draft full score in pencil, with German words.

GB-Lbl (British Library, London) MS Mus. 1745/2/13/5. Link to external resource

British Library source record

Autograph score

[Classification: notated music, manuscript, autograph, score, engraver's copy, complete]

The autograph full score, partly ink over pencil, dated Autumn 1911, and used as the publisher's Stichvorlage. Some evidence of rewriting by Delius in the score.

GB-Lbl (British Library, London) Music Loan 54.3. Link to external resource

British Library source record

Published score

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

Universal Edition, Vienna 1920.

The first edition of the full score, in German and English, was predated by the publication by Universal of chorus parts and Heinrich Hartmann's vocal score in 1913 and 1914 respectively.

Thomas Beecham's copy

Bearing Beecham's editorial markings.

Delius Trust, London.

Collected Edition

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

Editor: Thomas Beecham

Boosey & Hawkes, London 1988.

Constituting vol. 12a of the Collected Edition, with German and English words. Boosey & Hawkes had previously brought out a study-score (1978).

Performances

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