Ludvig Norman's chamber music - remaining works

[krister]

Hi!

In this forum there has been topics dealing with the chamber music of Ludvig Norman.
The number of quartets and their numbering is often debated. 
Information is available here: http://www.levandemusikarv.se/tonsattare/norman-ludvig/.

Quartet No 1 (op19?) is probably lost. The other quartets are to a certain extent available. The manuscripts reside in the Swedish Music Library.

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Then, he also wrote a really beatiful string quintet op. 35, just after his depressing divorce from Wilma (later to become Lady Halle).
Therefore the music is regarded to be of a certain depth. It is really good. Facsimile printing available at Merton Music (and hence imslp.)

Even larger is the string sextet opus 18. I have made a fair version of it, and performed it with friends, eventually  I will go back to it and
do a good revision. It might be possible for me to have it published. (after say 200 h or so work). I believe there is a pretty new
recording at Swe Broadcasting Org. I haven´t heard it myself, I believe the recording ensemble was Stockholms Stråksextett with leader
David Björkman.

It might be hard to the convince publishers though. I discovered the string sextet because it was on the same micro film as the

String octet op. 30. That I managed to do a fair edition of. My friend Theo Wyatt agreed on print at Merton Music. So now it is public domain at imslp.
It is defintily a great piece of music to add to the small repertoire of string octets.

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And good news: The piano sextet op. 29 of Norman is now available in print. A new edition is published here:
Musikaliska konstföreningen, ed. Krister Persson (2012), ISMN 979-0-9006069-5-2
www.musikaliskakonstforeningen.se

There exists at least two recordings at Swe Broadcasting Corp.

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Six quartets, one quintet, one sextet for strings and two Piano trios, one quartet and one sextet I believe is the grand total of chamber music
with more than two players. Norman is well worth of reviving.

Krister Persson

[chill319]

Listened recently to the Swedish composer Ludvig Norman's String Quartet in C Major, sketched in the 1870s and completed a couple of years before the composer's death in 1885. It is referred to variously as no. 4 and no. 5, and as opus 41 or opus 42. That fuzziness may reflect its reception by the Swedish musical community at the time, but in no way does it extend to the capabilities of its composer, which I find remarkable. So did Stenhammar, who studied Norman's chamber music closely while writing his own first quartets. If chamber music of the 1860s and '70s mostly sounds like warmed-over Schumann to you, give this a pass. Otherwise, this quartet is likely to impress.