Notturno
- Instrumentation
- Cello, Piano
- Composed
- 1891
- Duration
- 2'28''
- Publisher
- Edition·S (Danish Classical Music, DCM.045)
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About this piece
A melancholy Andante in G minor, written in 1891 while Griebel was a student at the Copenhagen conservatory. It was originally the fourth movement of a five-movement cello sonata in G minor, but it is the only movement whose piano part survives; for the others only the cello part remains. Over a pulsing chordal piano accompaniment, the cello sings a long line that rises into the treble clef before dying away with a smorzando. Edition·S's 2024 first edition includes the surviving cello parts of the other four movements as an appendix, and the piece was first recorded in 2025 by Jonathan Slaatto and Martin Qvist Hansen (Dacapo).
Technical overview
A lyrical line that moves from bass clef into treble clef and back, rising to about B4, with long slurred phrases, dotted rhythms and a chromatic middle section. Dynamics range from p to f, ending pianissimo with a smorzando.
Technical focus
- Legato
- Shifting
- Dotted Rhythms
- Accidentals
- Hairpin Dynamics
- Dynamics