Nielsen - String Quartet No. 3, Opus 14

Ludolf Nielsen String Quartet No. 3 in C major, Op. 41: Allegretto pastorale. Allegro moderato grazioso. Adagio con dolore. Allegro. Aros Quartet: Ida Lorenzen, violin. Tina Træholt, violin. Dorthe Byrialsen, viola. Birgitte Øland, violoncello. Ludolf Nielsen grew up in the countryside where his father was a farmer. Even as a child he showed musical facility and got violin lessons at the local folk. The family emphasized that his sons should have good education. Two of his brothers became respectively. physician and veterinarian, and eight years old was Ludolf Nielsen, a student of music teachers in nearby Naestved. He soon began playing at parties, and the dream of becoming a professional musician was really done when he was 16-year-old came to Copenhagen and became a student of the later concert master at the Royal. Chapel Ludvig Holm. 1895 Ludolf Nielsen won a scholarship at the music conservatory. For three years he received instruction in violin, piano and theory of such Valdemar Tofte, and immediately after discharge, he joined the Tivoli orchestra. From these years come his earliest compositions, besides songs and pieces for piano or violin summer evening choral work with lyrics by John Jorgensen, it was premiered 1898 "at the Academy Examen under own management." In Tivoli and in winter at the Palace concerts seemed Ludolf Nielsen the next ten years as a solo viola player, and occasionally also as a conductor, as he helped to found Bjørvig Quartet. But while he made for himself as a composer. String Quartet No. 1 (JC No. 14 [1]) was first performed the 1900th 1902 was the symphonic poem Regnar Lodbrog (JC No. 17, 1901) premiered at Tivoli by Joachim Andersen. And the following year he conducted himself premiere of his first Symphony (JC No. 20, 1903) in Danish Concert Association. Fertile years Although self-taught as a composer Ludolf Nielsen was a talent, you bet on. He got a scholarship which took him to Leipzig 1903-04. Here was his symphonic picture Night Atmosphere (JC 21, 1903) premiered, and one of the leading publishers Breitkopf & Härtel, published his first two string quartets (JC 14, 1900, JC No. 23, 1904). Back in Copenhagen continued flow of compositions and rapid premieres with such solo works for violin and cello and the symphonic suite from the mountains (JC No. 25, 1905), and 1907 won Ludolf Nielsen, by Asger Hamerik printed Composer Competition with his Concert Overture (JC No. 30, 1906). It was rewarded with a three-year artist grant from the state and the Ancker scholarship. Ludolf Nielsen ended his career as an orchestral musician, married and went on a combined wedding and trip to Germany, Austria and Italy. After his return struck the couple settled in (then still) rural surroundings in Hellerup, and now followed a series of fruitful years until the outbreak of the first World War II. Ludolf Nielsen was industrious and composed songs, piano music and orchestral works in abundance. But he was also ambitious and aimed high: With the operas Isbella (JC No. 31.1903-07) and clock (JC No. 52, 1908-11) he tried to establish itself as a musical dramatist. And with the symphonies No. 2 (JC 39, 1909) and No. 3 (JC No. 58, 1911-13), he sought to realize the dream of late Romantic music as a vehicle for a philosophical view of life.

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