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Suite for Violin and String Orchestra, Op. 117
Jean Sibelius · 1865–1957
Level 6 · Pre-diploma — about ARSM · RCM 10
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- Type
- Suite
- Setting
- String orchestra (piano reduction)
- Length
- About 8 min
- Era
- Late Romantic
- Nationality
- Finnish
- Exam lists
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Notes
Three pastoral movements; light virtuosic finale
About this work
- Composed
- 1929
- First performed
- 1990/12/08 in Lahti, Finland; Lahti Symphony Orchestra, John Storgårds (violin), Osmo Vänskä (conductor)
- Country Scenery (Allegretto)
- Serenade: Evening in Spring (Andantino)
- In the Summer (Vivace)