Grieg, Edvard
Seks dikt, op. 4
(
Sechs Lieder, op. 4)
(
Six songs, op. 4)
Opus 4
Dedicatee: Nina Hagerup
Six songs to German poems by Chamisso (nos. 1 and 2), Heine (nos. 3, 5 and 6) and Uhland (no. 4). All stanzas of the poems are set to music. In different editions the songs are translated to Danish by B. Feddersen (GGA) and to English by F. Corder and W. H. Halverson (GGA). Op. 4 was only published as a separate issue by Grieg's Danish publishers. C. F. Peters published the songs as part of Lieder-Album II (Nos. 2–5) and V (No. 1 and 6).
A scholarly-critical edition of op. 4 was published by C. F. Peters as part of Edvard Grieg:
Complete Works (GGA). It is printed in vol. 14 (1990), p. 12-28, and is available online through the National Library of Norway (link below).
GGA vol. 14 (EP 8514, pl. no. 31632)
Composition: 1863-1864.
| 1863 |
No. 2-5 was composed. |
| 1864 |
No. 1 and 6 was composed. The first edition was published in Copenhagen, probably in May. |
Music
1.
Tempo: Allegretto
Metre:
2
4
Key: A minor
Extent: 71 bars.
Text incipit:
Jeg skulde samle Blaabær
Sie haben mich geheißen
They sent me to the forest
2.
Tempo: Animato
Metre:
2
4
Key: A major
Extent: 36 bars.
Text incipit:
Til Elskov og Kjærtegn vi vilde
Wir wollten mit Kosen und Lieben
We wanted with love and caressing
3.
Tempo: Allegretto serioso
Metre:
6
8
Key: G minor
Extent: 32 bars.
Text incipit:
Nu visner Skoven atter
Das gelbe Laub erzittert
The autumn forest is trembling
4.
Tempo: Presto con brio
Metre:
6
8
Key: E♭ major
Extent: 37 bars.
Text incipit:
Jeg svinger mig paa Hesten glad
Kein’ beß’re Lust in dieser Zeit
I love to mount my nimble steed
5.
Tempo: Allegretto semplice
Metre:
𝄴
Key: C major
Extent: 43 bars.
Text incipit:
Der var en gammel Konge
Es war ein alter König
Once liv’d an ancient monarch
6.
Tempo: Allegro molto agitato
Metre:
6
8
Key: E minor
Extent: 57 bars.
Text incipit:
En Runesten i Havet staar
Es ragt in’s Meer der Runenstein
A runic stone I chanc’d to spy
Sources
Autograph
[Classification: Notated music, Manuscript, Autograph, printer's copy, Complete]
16 pages; 34x27.5 cm.
Title page:
Til Fröken Nina Hagerup. / 6 Digte / af H. Heine, L. Uhland, og A. von Chamisso. / For Altstemme og Pianoforte / componerede af / Edvard H. Grieg. / Op. 4.
The Ms. consists of 16 paginated pages in folio format (landscape orientation), each with 9 hand-drawn staves: title page, sheet music on page 2-16. The Ms. is written in ink, contains some corrections and was the printer's copy for the first edition.
Autograph (nos. 1 and 6)
[Classification: Notated music, Manuscript, Autograph, engraver's copy]
30x22.5 cm.
Autographs to nos. 1 and 6. These are contained in a booklet of 11 songs (52 partly paginated pages in total), which was the engraver's copy for Grieg-Album V (cf. EG 204).
Peters archive/Sächsisches Staatsarchiv, Leipzig.
Proof copy of first edition
[Classification: Notated music, Print]
Contains extensive corrections with pencil to no. 1, 4-6.
First edition
[Classification: Notated music, Print, First edition]
Translator: B. Feddersen
Horneman & Erslev (Emil Erslev), Copenhagen May? 1864.
Title page:
TIL / Frøken Nina Hagerup. / SEX DIGTE / AF / H. Heine, L. Uhland og A. von Chamisso, /
FOR / ALTSTEMME OG PIANOFORTE / componerede / af / EDVARD H. GRIEG. / Op. 4.
Forlæggerens Eiendom. Pr. 1 Rd. / KJØBENHAVN / hos / HORNEMAN & ERSLEV / (Emil
Erslev). / J. L. SIVERTSENs TRYK.
Pl. no.623.
Folio format. Title page, p. [2] empty, musical text on p. 3–15, p. [16] empty. Engraved printing.
Texts in German and Danish.
Reissue with new title page
Title page: As in the first edition until KJØBENHAVN / HORNEMAN & ERSLEV. / (S. A. E. HAGEN.) /
Stockholm: Abr. Hirsch. Elkan & Schildknecht. Christiania: C. Warmuth. J. A. Rösholm. / J. L.
SIVERTSENs TRYK. [ca. 1870]
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Reissue as part of a collection
Title page:
WILHELM HANSEN EDITION. / ROMANCER OG SANGE / af / EDVARD
GRIEG. / Op. 4.
Sex Digte af A. v. Chamisso, H. Heine og Uhland. [… with op. 4, 5 and 9] /
FORLÆGGERENS EJENDOM FOR DE SKANDINAVISKE LANDE. / KJØBENHAVN &
LEIPZIG. / WILHELM HANSEN, MUSIK-FORLAG. [189-?]
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Single issues
Pl. no.623 a-f.
All songs from the first edition appeared as single issues.
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Collections
Romancer og Sange (vol. 1-10), EG 201
Wilhelm Hansen, Copenhagen.
All songs from op. 4 are included in EG 201 vol. 1 (1880).
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Grieg-Album I–V, EG 204
C. F. Peters, Leipzig & Berlin.
Nos. 2-5 are included in album II (1875). Nos. 1 and 6 are included in album V (1885).
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Transcriptions/arrangements
No. 2: Morgendug
Arranger: Emile Sauret
C. F. Peters, Leipzig [1885?].
For violin and piano. Vol. I.
Literature
Finn Benestad and Dag Schjelderup-Ebbe:
Edvard Grieg: Mennesket og kunstneren (= 2nd ed.). Aschehoug: Oslo 1990,
pp. 62-63, 367.
The National Library of Norway
Finn Benestad and Hella Brock:
Edvard Grieg: Briefwechsel mit dem Musikverlag C.F. Peters 1863–1907. C.F. Peters : Frankfurt am Main 1997, p. 20.
Dan Fog, Kirsti Grinde and Øyvind Norheim:
Edvard Grieg: Thematisch-Bibliographisches Werkverzeichnis (= GGA, vol. 21). C. F. Peters: Frankfurt 2008,
pp. 8-11.
Edvard Grieg:
Dagbøker (1865, 1866, 1905, 1906 og 1907). Bergen Offentlige Bibliotek: Bergen 1993, pp. 130-131.
The National Library of Norway
File title:
Seks dikt, op. 4
Series:
Grieg Verkkatalog
File publication:
Senter for Griegforskning
Strømgaten 6, 5015 Bergen
Link: http://www.uib.no/griegforskning
Editors: Arnulf Mattes; Arvid Vollsnes; Audun Jonassen; Stanko Drazic; Bjørnar Utne-Reitan
Project director: Kirstine Folmann
Engineer: Tarje Sælen Lavik
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