Frederick Delius

A Dance Rhapsody [No. 1]

DCW 33
RT VI/18
DCE 25b

Composer: Frederick Delius
Dedicatee: Hermann Suter

This work, first performed as part of the Three Choirs Festival, is notable for its orchestration, incorporating the bass oboe and sarrusophone. The autograph score is lost, and only a draft score entitled 'Harmonic Dances' is currently known. 

Composition: Between 1908 and 1909.

Instrumentation:
Orchestra : picc.fl., 2 fl., ob., cor.ingl., bass ob., 3 cl., cl.b., 3 fg., sarr. or cfg., 6 cor., 3 tr., 3 trb., tb., timp., tambo., trgl., cym., 2 arp., str.

Lento

Musical incipit for this work


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