34a. Scherzo-Trio

[Allegro vivo, A minor, 3/4 – Allegro vivo, F major, 3/4]

TIME OF ORIGIN

1882-1883.

PERFORMANCES

First known performance: 29 November 2014 at the Teatro del Giglio, Lucca, by the Orchestra del Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova; conductor: Giuliano Carella.

First performance of the Trio Note: The Trio in Fa was previously listed as catalogue number 52 in Schickling 2003 (pp. 119-120).  in an arrangement for string quartet by Giorgio Magri: 7 December 1982, RAI Television, Rete III, Rubrica Regionale Piemonte.
Performers: Quartetto d’archi dell’Orchestra Sinfonica di Torino della RAI.

First performance of the Scherzo and Trio in a critical edition of the Quartetto in Re (34.E.2): 29 August 2001 at the Liederhalle in Stuttgart.Note: Previously, this music was performed by the Ariosa-Quartet in a provisional revised arrangement for string quartet on 20 August 1999 at the Kulturcafé Merlin in Stuttgart. A further revision leading to the critical edition was performed at the Teatro del Giglio in Lucca by the Quartetto Borciani on 20 May 2001. 
Performers: Lotus-Quartett.

INSTRUMENTATION

Piccolo, 2 Flutes, 2 Oboes, 2 Clarinets, 2 Bassoons, 4 Horns, 2 Trumpets, 3 Trombones, Ophicleide, Timpani, Strings.

LITERATURE

Fellerer 1937b, p. 689; Hopkinson 1968, pp. 64-65 (old shelf marks VIII, X, and XXVII); Mostra 1974, p. 21, Nos. 11 a and b, and p. 27, No. 21; Magri 1974, pp. 300-302; Bassi 1992, pp. 14-16; Magri 1999, pp. 67-71; Schickling 2001, p. V; Girardi, Bernardoni and Schickling 2015, pp. XIV-XV, XIX-XX, XXV-XXVI, 139-140,145-146, 155-156. 

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