Nonet in E-flat Major, Op. 38

Composer: FARRENC, Louise
  • Farrenc composed this four-movement chamber work in 1849.1 It is scored for the unusual combination of flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon, violin, viola, cello, and bass.2
  • This work was a major critical success for Farrenc when it premiered in Paris in 1850, and brought her a measure of sudden fame. The premiere had attracted the critics’ attention because Joseph Joachim played the violin part. Though it was early in his career, he was already extremely famous.3
  • Despite the success of the work in performance, Farrenc’s Nonet was not published during her lifetime.4
  • Farrenc also arranged this work for string quintet (2 violins, viola, cello, bass).5

Sources

  1. Bea Friedland, “Farrenc family,” Grove Music Online, (2001), accessed August 6, 2021,  https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000009336. 
  2. “Nonet, Op. 38 (Farrenc, Louise),” IMSLP, accessed August 6, 2021, https://imslp.org/wiki/Nonet%2C_Op.38_(Farrenc%2C_Louise).
  3. Friedland, “Farrenc family,” Grove Music Online
  4. Louise Farrenc, Quintet, from the Nonet, Op. 38, ed. Susan Pickett (Worcester, MA: Hildegard Publshing, 2001), ii.
  5. Ibid.

Cut IDs

15474