Stycke d-moll (Piece in D minor)
- Instrumentation
- Cello, Piano
- Duration
- 1'
- Publisher
- Swedish Musical Heritage (Levande Musikarv, Royal Swedish Academy of Music), critical edition by Finn Rosengren, 2014, with Albumblad (edition nos. 735-736); free download, public domain. First printed by Hans Ahlborg musik, 2009.
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About this piece
Jakob Adolf Hägg (1850-1928), a Gotland-born pianist who studied composition with Niels W. Gade in Copenhagen, left this untitled piece in a single undated manuscript, now in the Hägg collection of the Music and Theatre Library in Stockholm. Swedish Musical Heritage published it in 2014 alongside his Albumblad, and its editor Finn Rosengren likens these small pieces to musical diary jottings. Over 42 bars of 3/4, a stepwise D minor phrase alternates with plucked bass notes under the piano, and a quieter middle section gives the cello long slurred lines over rippling broken chords before the opening returns.
Technical overview
D minor, 3/4, no tempo marking. Eighth-note phrases with two-note slurs and a sixteenth-note triplet, pizzicato and arco switches, and a legato middle section in half notes that rises to the G above middle C (fourth position). Bass clef throughout.
Technical focus
- 2 Note Slurs
- Accidentals
- Collaboration with Piano
- Dynamics
- Legato
- Pizzicato
- Shifting
- Triplets