Winter Night (Sleigh Ride)

Winter Nacht (Schlittenfahrt)

DCW 23
RT VI/7
DCE 21b

Composer: Frederick Delius

Threlfall suggests that this work is an orchestral version of a lost piano work, Norwegischer Schlittenfahrt, RT IX/3, performed for Edvard Grieg and Christian Sinding on Christmas Eve 1887 (RT, 129).

Contained in:

3 Symphonische Dichtungen

Composition: 1889.

Instrumentation:

Orchestra : picc., 2 fl., 2 ob., 2 cl., 2 fg., 4 cor., 2 tr., 2 cnt., 3 trb., tb., timp., sleigh bells, cym., str.

Allegretto con moto

Musical incipit for this work

Sources

Autograph score

[Classification: notated music, manuscript, autograph, score, fair copy, complete]

Editor: Thomas Beecham

Title page: II|"Winter Nacht"|Charakter Stück für Orchester|Fritz Delius|1889|"Winternacht" Also on the title page are the following lines in German: "Ein Weihnachts Abend stand ich in der freie Natur|der Mond schien hell über der Schnee bedeckte|Landschaft. Ein Schlitten ließ sich hören in weiter Ferne|bald aber jagte vorbei und verschwand allmählig|dann war es wieder Stille, kalt und friedlich" [One Christmas eve I stood in the open air. The moon shone bright over the billowing landscape. The sound of an approaching sleigh was heard from a distance, but it soon rushed by and disappeared. And then gradually it was once more still and bright and peaceful] (translation: RT, 129).

GB-Lbl (British Library, London) MS Mus. 1745/2/1. Link to external resource

British Library source record

Published score

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

Boosey & Hawkes, London 1977.

Collected Edition

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

Editor: Thomas Beecham

Boosey & Hawkes, London 1989.

Unlike the 1977 edition, this revised edition incorporates Beecham's extensive editorial markings in the manuscript.

Performances

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