Romance in G for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 39 (1899)

Composer: COLERIDGE-TAYLOR, Samuel
  • Coleridge-Taylor likely composed this piece in 1899,1 and it was published in 1900. It also exists in a version for violin and piano.2
  • NB: This work is not to be confused with Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Romance of the Prairie Lilies. Despite the fact that they are both labeled with the same opus number, and they were written in the same year, they are two distinct pieces of music. (Coleridge-Taylor’s catalogue of works is occasionally plagued by repeated opus numbers: see 24 Negro Melodies.)3
  • This work features a theme that Coleridge-Taylor also used in his Sonata in d minor for violin and piano, Op. 284 (c. 1898).5

Sources

  1. Stephen Banfield and Jeremy Dibble, and Anya Laurence, “Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel,” Grove Music Online (2003), accessed August 11, 2021,  https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-1002248993. 
  2. Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Romance in G: Violin and Pianoforte, arr. Theophil Wendt (London: Novello, 1900).
  3. Leonardo Ottonido di Rosario, Keep Me from Sinking Down: A Thematic Catalog of the Violin Works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, DMA diss., University of Greensboro (2018), https://libres.uncg.edu/ir/uncg/f/OttonidoRosario_uncg_0154D_12443.pdf, 50-51.
  4. Ibid.
  5. Banfield, Dibble, and Laurence, “Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel,” Grove Music Online.

Cut IDs

21327