Stemning
- Instrumentation
- Cello, Piano
- Composed
- 1909
- Duration
- 1'39''
- Publisher
- Edition·S (Danish Classical Music, DCM.073)
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About this piece
A 14-bar Adagio espressivo 'mood piece' (Stemning) of under two minutes, among Dalberg's earliest known compositions. It survives only as no. 8 in a notebook of fair copies that otherwise holds songs, and is dated to around 1909, when she was studying with Johan Svendsen. No performance in her lifetime is known; it was first published by Edition·S in 2024 and first recorded in 2025 by Jonathan Slaatto and Martin Qvist Hansen (Dacapo).
Technical overview
A slow, expressive A-flat major melody written entirely in tenor clef, lying mostly on the A string and reaching about B-flat 4/C5, so it needs shifts into the upper neck positions. Dotted rhythms, small 32nd-note turns, many chromatic accidentals and swells between p and f.
Technical focus
- Shifting
- Dotted Rhythms
- Accidentals
- Hairpin Dynamics
- Dynamics
- A String Notes