Légende for Violin and Orchestra

DCW 10
RT VII/3
DCE 28

Composer: Frederick Delius

While some sources imply or state that the work was composed in 1892, the autograph score gives the date as 1895, leading Threlfall to speculate that it was originally composed in 1892, and rescored for orchestra at the later date (RT, 163).

Composition: Between 1892 and 1895.

Instrumentation:

Orchestra 2.2.2.2/4.2.3.1/timp./str.: 2 fl., 2 ob., 2 cl., 2 fg., 4 cor., timp., arp., str.

Soloist: vl.

Key: E♭ major

Musical incipit for this work

Sources

Autograph violin and piano version

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

This sketch of the work, for violin and piano, relates to the reduced version for those forces published by Forsyth Brothers Ltd in 1916. For a comparison of these sources see RT.1986, 151.

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

British Library source record

Copyist's violin and piano version

[Classification: notated music, manuscript, copy, score]

Title page: 'Legende für Violino und Pianoforte von Fritz Delius'

This manuscript, in an unknown copyist's hand, is 'the first definitive version of the work in this form' (RT.1986, 163). Unlike the other sources, it bears a tempo direction: 'Ruhig und stimmungsvoll'.

GB-Mcm (Royal Northern College of Music) MS/37.

Autograph full score

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

Title page: Partition d'Orchestre|'Legende'|Frederick Delius|pour Violon & Orchestre|Paris 1895.

Threlfall remarks that this score is identical with the RNCM manuscript, but with various retouchings, supporting his theory that the work was originally written for violin and piano and later orchestrated.

GB-Lbl (British Library) MS Mus. 1745/1/8. Link to external resource

British Library source record

Violin and piano version

[Classification: notated music, print, score]

Forsyth Brothers, London 1916.

Published full score

[Classification: notated music, print, score]

Editor: Thomas Beecham

Boosey & Hawkes, London 1985.

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