← Chamber music3Andante festivo (version for string quartet), JS 34a
For 2 violins, viola, cello
Also known as Andante festivo, JS 34a
Level 3 · Upper intermediate — about ABRSM 6 · RCM 7, with the parts evenly matched
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- Ensemble
- String quartet
- Hardest part
- Balanced
- Form
- Short piece
- Length
- About 5 min
- Composed
- 1922
- Era
- Late Romantic
Notes
Original string quartet version; Sibelius later made a version for string orchestra and timpani
About this work
- Composed
- 1922
- Dedicated to
- [Walter Parvainen]
- First performed
- 1922/12/28 (JS 34a); 1939/01/01 in Helsinki (JS 34b); Finnish National Radio Orchestra, Jean Sibelius (conductor)
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