Sinfonietta
Sinfonietta is the diminutive of Sinfonia . The term has been used since the late 19th century as the title of instrumental works whose structure is based on the symphony , but which have a smaller scope (fewer movements ), were composed for smaller ensembles (often for chamber orchestras ) or with more modest demands.
In addition, some orchestras call themselves Sinfonietta , including the London Sinfonietta , the Oslo Sinfonietta , the Amsterdam Sinfonietta, the Northwest Sinfonietta, Tacoma, the Sinfonietta Munich, the Sinfonietta Dresden , the Tapiola Sinfonietta , the Basel Sinfonietta , the Sinfonietta Schaffhausen, the Sinfonietta Cracovia , the Sinfonietta Riga and the Holst-Sinfonietta ; these four ensembles feel particularly committed to contemporary music . Ensembles also bear this name to distinguish them from the size of a symphony orchestra ; a Sinfonietta usually has all orchestral instruments available, but these usually only have a single cast, so that especially large chamber music works and accompanying tasks (e.g. in oratorios and cantatas ) can be performed.
History and definition of the term
Among the first to use the term Sinfonietta were Joachim Raff ( Sinfonietta op.188 for ten wind instruments , 1873), Nikolai Andrejewitsch Rimski-Korsakow ( Sinfonietta on Russian themes in A minor op.31 , 1880-84), and Louis Théodore Gouvy ( Sinfonietta in D major op.80 , ca.1886 ).
Most of the symphoniets, however, date from the first half of the 20th century, including the Sinfonietta (1926) by Leoš Janáček , which is considered the best-known work of this genre. It emerged from a festival fanfare for a congress in Brno and is often interpreted as an expression of patriotic joy in the young Czechoslovak Republic .
Some of the symphonies are quite comparable in terms of size and instrumentation of the symphony. This includes the Sinfonietta in A major op.90 (1904/05) by Max Reger , whose light-hearted character and stylistic affinity to the orchestral serenade explain its title. The Sinfonietta in B major op.5 (1912) by Erich Wolfgang Korngold also achieved the format of a symphony.
On the other hand, short symphonies are not automatically referred to as sinfonietta. For example, the titles Kleine Sinfonie (1932) by Hanns Eisler or Short Symphony (1932/33) by Aaron Copland reflect the symphonic aspirations of the respective composers.
The chamber symphony from the beginning of the 20th century must still be distinguished from the Sinfonietta , which as a genre can also be placed between symphony and chamber music , but generally remains in one movement. Where the chamber symphony is made up of several movements, for example in Arnold Schönberg's 2nd Chamber Symphony (1909/39) , the boundary between the genres blurs.
Orchestral works with the title Sinfonietta
A selection in alphabetical order of the composers:
- Nikolai Aladov : Sinfonietta in C major, op.40 (1936)
- William Alwyn : Sinfonietta (№1) for String Orchestra (1970)
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Mihail Andricu :
- Sinfonietta №1
- Sinfonietta №2, op. 40 (1946)
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Malcolm Arnold :
- Sinfonietta №1 for Small Orchestra, op.48 (1954)
- Sinfonietta №2 for Small Orchestra, op.65 (1958)
- Alexander Arutjunjan : Sinfonietta, for string orchestra (1966)
- Henk Badings : Sinfonietta №1, for chamber orchestra (1971)
- Maciej Bałenkowski : Sinfonietta “Time is Ticking” (2015)
- Stanley Bate : Sinfonietta №1, op. 22 (1938)
- Arnold Bax : Sinfonietta (1932)
- Sadao Bekku : Sinfonietta for String Orchestra (1959)
- Howard Blake : Sinfonietta for Brass, op.300 (1981)
- Benjamin Britten : Sinfonietta for 10 Instruments, op. 1 (1932)
- Geoffrey Bush : Sinfonietta Concertante for Cello and Orchestra (1943)
- Max Butting : Sinfonietta with Banjo, op.37 (1929)
- Edwin Carr : Sinfonietta (1997)
- George Whitefield Chadwick : Sinfonietta in D major (in four movements) for orchestra (1904)
- Henry Cowell : Sinfonietta, per orchestra da camera (1928)
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Etienne Crausaz :
- Sinfonietta №1
- Sinfonietta №2
- Sinfonietta №3
- Marc-André Dalbavie : Sinfonietta (2004)
- Raffaele d'Alessandro : Sinfonietta pour cordes, piano oblige et timbales, op.51 (1944)
- Václav Dobiáš : Sinfonietta (1947)
- Nikos Filaktos : Sinfonietta (1996)
- Harald Genzmer : Sinfonietta for string orchestra, GeWV 106 (1953)
- Eugene Goossens : Sinfonietta
- Louis Théodore Gouvy : Sinfonietta in D major, op. 80 (ca.1886)
- Paul Graener : Sinfonietta, op.27 (1910)
- Ernesto Halffter Escriche : Sinfonietta in D Major for Orchestra (1925)
- Kimmo Hakola : Sinfonietta (1999)
- Halvor Haug : Sinfonietta, for Symphony Orchestra (1983)
- Bernard Herrmann : Sinfonietta for String Orchestra (1936; rev. 1975)
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Paul Hindemith :
- Funny Sinfonietta, per piccola orchestra, op.4 (1916)
- Sinfonietta in Eb (1940)
- Vagn Holmboe : Preludes for Sinfonietta (for chamber orchestra) (approx. 1995)
- Volodymyr Huba : Autumn Music (Sinfonietta №1)
- Leoš Janáček : Sinfonietta , op. 60 (1926)
- José Manuel Joly Braga Santos : Sinfonietta for Strings “To Álvaro Cassuto and the Gulbenkian Orchestra”, op. 39 (1963)
- Scott Johnson : Sinfonietta
- Robert Kajanus : Sinfonietta in B-flat Major, op.16 (1915)
- Maurice Karkoff : Sinfonietta grave
- Vítězslava Kaprálová : Military Sinfonietta, op.11 (1937)
- Nikolai Kapustin : Sinfonietta, op.49 (1987)
- John Kinsella : Sinfonietta: Pictures from The Odyssey (1983)
- Lev Knipper : Sinfonietta for String Orchestra (1971-72)
- Erich Wolfgang Korngold : Sinfonietta for Large Orchestra, op.5 (1913)
- Ernst Krenek : Sinfonietta à Brasileira, op.131 (1952)
- Rainer Kunad : Sinfonietta (1969)
- László Lajtha : Sinfonietta for String Orchestra, op.43 (1946)
- Szymon Laks : Sinfonietta for Strings (1936)
- Gordon Langford : Sinfonietta, for brass band (1975)
- Rued Langgaard : Septet (Sinfonietta), for Wind Instruments (BVN 95) (1915)
- Lars-Erik Larsson : Sinfonietta for Strings, op.10 (1932)
- Gennady Lyashenko : Sinfonietta in D minor
- Elizabeth Maconchy : Sinfonietta, for orchestra (1976)
- James MacMillan : Sinfonietta (1991)
- Czesław Józef Marek : Sinfonietta in D major, op.16 (1913)
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Bohuslav Martinů :
- Sinfonietta giocosa, per pianoforte e orchestra, H. 282 (1940)
- Sinfonietta "La Jolla", H. 328 (1950)
- William Mathias : Sinfonietta, op.34 (1967)
- Johan de Meij : Sinfonietta №1 (2013)
- Ernest John Moeran : Sinfonietta for Orchestra (1944)
- José Pablo Moncayo : Sinfonietta (1945)
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Paul Müller-Zurich :
- Sinfonietta №1, op.66 (1963)
- Sinfonietta №2, op.68 (1964)
- John Musto : Sinfonietta (2015)
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Nikolai Myaskovsky :
- Sinfonietta №1 in A Major for Small Orchestra, op.10 (1911)
- Diversions (Razvlyichenie), op. 32 (1929) (Sinfonietta №2 in B minor for string orchestra)
- Sinfonietta №3 in A minor for string orchestra, op.68 (1946)
- Boris Papandopulo : Sinfonietta for String Orchestra, op.79
- Stephen Paulus : Manhattan Sinfonietta (1995)
- Krzysztof Penderecki : Sinfonietta for Strings (1992)
- Piotr Perkowski : Sinfonietta (1932)
- George Perle : Sinfonietta №2 (1990)
- Jaromír Podešva : Sinfonietta Festiva, for chamber orchestra (1983)
- Francis Poulenc : La Sinfonietta, FP 141 (1947)
- Sergei Prokofjew : Sinfonietta "dedicated to Nikolai Tcherepnin" in A major, op. 5/48 (1909; rev. 1914 & 1929)
- Joachim Raff : Sinfonietta, for 10 wind instruments, op.188 (1873)
- Primoz Ramovs : Sinfonietta
- Max Reger : Sinfonietta in A major, op.90 (1904–05)
- Wallingford Riegger : Sinfonietta, op.73 (1959)
- Nikolai Rimski-Korsakow : Sinfonietta on Russian Themes in A minor, op. 31 (1880–84)
- Albert Roussel : Sinfonietta op.52 (1934)
- Dane Rudhyar : Sinfonietta (1925)
- Moroi Saburō : Sinfonietta in B-flat major, op. 24 (1943)
- Kazimierz Serocki : Sinfonietta for Two String Orchestras (1956)
- Vissarion Shebalin : Sinfonietta on Russian Folk Themes, op. 43 (1949–51)
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Philip Sparke :
- Sinfonietta №1 (1990)
- Sinfonietta №2 (1992)
- Sinfonietta №3 (Rheinfelden Sketches) (2002)
- Sinfonietta №4 (Stramproy Centennial) (2009)
- Jewhen Stankowytsch : Sinfonietta in Modo Collage (1971)
- Carlos Surinach : Symphony №3, “Sinfonietta Flamenca” (1953)
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Alexandre Tansman :
- Sinfonietta №1
- Sinfonietta №2 (1978)
- Eduard Tubin : Sinfonietta on Estonian Motifs (1940)
- Anatol Vieru : Sinfonietta (1975)
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Heitor Villa-Lobos :
- Sinfonietta Nº1 (1916)
- Sinfonietta Nº2 (1947)
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Oliver Waespi :
- Sinfonietta №1
- Sinfonietta №2
- Johan Wagenaar : Sinfonietta in C major, op.32 (1917)
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Mieczysław Weinberg :
- Sinfonietta №1 in D major, sur des thèmes juifs, op. 41 (1948)
- Sinfonietta №2 in G major for String Orchestra and Timpani, op.74 (1960)
- John Williams : Sinfonietta for Wind Ensemble (1968)
- Dag Wirén : Sinfonietta in C major op.7a (1933–34; rev. Until approx. 1940)
- Róbert Wittinger : Sinfonietta per piccola orchestra, op.53 (1994)
- Alexander von Zemlinsky : Sinfonietta op.23 (1934)
literature
- Ludwig Finscher : Symphony . MGGprisma ( Bärenreiter-Verlag / JB Metzler ), 2001, ISBN 3-7618-1620-0