Romance for Strings in C Major, Op. 42

Composer: SIBELIUS, Jean
  • Sibelius composed this work in 1903, while he was working on his Violin Concerto.1 Sibelius conducted the Musical Society of Turku in the premiere of this piece on March 26, 1904.2
  • Scholars have heard the influence of Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings in this piece.3
  • Sibelius originally entitled this piece “Andante,” but changed the name to “Romance” after a reviewer suggested that “romance” or “nocturne” would have been more appropriate titles.4

Sources

  1.  Rachel Campbell, “Romance, for string orchestra in C major, Op. 42,” AllMusic, accessed January 30, 2020, https://www.allmusic.com/composition/romance-for-string-orchestra-in-c-major-op-42-mc0002371212. 
  2.  Fabian Dahlström and James Hepokoski, “Sibelius, Jean,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed January 30, 2020,  https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000043725. 
  3.  Philip Ross Bullock, “Sibelius and the Russian Tradition,” in Jean Sibelius and His World, ed. Daniel M. Grimley (Princetion, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011), 28.
  4.  Rachel Campbell, “Romance, for string orchestra in C major, Op. 42,” AllMusic, accessed January 30, 2020, https://www.allmusic.com/composition/romance-for-string-orchestra-in-c-major-op-42-mc0002371212. 

Cut IDs

40877