Intermezzo from Fennimore and Gerda

Composer: DELIUS, Frederick
  • Fennimore and Gerda is an “opera in 11 pictures” with libretto and music by Delius, based on J.P. Jacobsen’s novel Niels Lyhne.1
  • The opera premiered in Frankfurt in 1919.2
  • Fennimore and Gerda was the last of Delius’s many operas.3
  • The story is told in a set of eleven vignettes presenting snapshots of the characters’ lives over the course of many years. There are orchestral interludes between many of the vignettes.4
  • Synopsis from Boosey & Hawkes
  • This Intermezzo was extracted in 1945 by Eric Fenby, Delius’s music assistant, from the introductions to the scenes with Gerda near the end of the opera. 5

Sources

  1. Robert Anderson, “Fennimore and Gerda,” Grove Music Online (2002), accessed August 29, 2019, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-5000007819.
  2. Ibid.
  3. Lionel Carley, Robert Anderson, and Anthony Payne, “Delius, Frederick,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed August 29, 2019, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000049095.
  4. Anderson, “Fennimore and Gerda,” Grove Music Online.
  5. Ibid.

Cut IDs

20118, 42065