Sonata No. 2 for violin and pianoforte

DCW 50
RT VIII/9
DCE 31b

Composer: Frederick Delius

The second of Delius's violin sonatas to be published in his lifetime was written as Delius's health started to deteriorate; consequently, while much of the work is extant in autograph, the final copy prepared for the publisher was completed by Jelka. The work was edited by Albert Sammons and Evlyn Howard-Jones. Sammons was the dedicatee of the Violin Concerto and lead violinist of the London String Quartet, who gave the first performance of the String Quartet, while Howard-Jones was the dedicatee of Delius's Five Piano Pieces, written around the same time as the present work.

Composition: 1923.

Instrumentation: vl., pf.

Con moto - Lento - Molto vivace

Musical incipit for this work

Sources

Draft material

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

This manuscript contains i) incomplete draft in ink in Delius's hand, broadly corresponding to bb. 1-140 of the published score, bearing pencil remarks by Jelka on p. 9: 'copy from here'; ii) a complete draft, begun by Delius in ink, continued on p. 5 by him in pencil (bb. 52-203, with bb. 175-203 apparently gone over in pencil by Jelka), and completed by Jelka in pencil (bb. 204-280); iii) bb. 61-183 of item ii) in Jelka's pencil fair copy, likely replacing Delius's pencil draft given the poor quality of his script at this point.

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

British Library source record

Stichvorlage

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

GB-Lbl (British Library, London) MS Mus. 1745/3/17. Link to external resource

British Library source record

Published score

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

Editor: Albert Sammons and Evlyn Howard-Jones

Hawkes & Son, London 1924.

Thomas Beecham's copy

The piano score bears Beecham's markings in pencil.

Delius Trust, London.

Collected Edition

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

Editor: Thomas Beecham, Eric Fenby

Delius Trust, London 1986.

The Collected Edition is a new edition, prepared with reference to all manuscript sources, as well as marked printed copies belonging to Eric Fenby and Thomas Beecham.

Performances

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