Other Scores
Portrait of Andrée (Date Unknown)
Source: Wikimedia Commons
String Quartet (Quintet) in D Minor (1887), Arr. from String Orchestra by The Composer (1909)
Instrumentation: String quartet, String quintet, or String Orchestra
Length: c. 20 minutes
Publisher: Hildegard Publishing
Andrée’s String Quartet in D Minor is her final and perhaps her finest chamber-music composition. A work of broad expressive scope, the first movement is quintessentially Romantic: brooding and restless. The despair of the cavatina-like lyrical second movement ultimately resolves to acceptance. A humorous Pastorale follows. Andrée concludes her quartet with a stern fugue, which concludes triumphantly in D major.
The composer later added an optional bass part to enable performances for string orchestra. This work may also be performed as a string quintet. This is the first published edition to acknowledge all manuscript versions of the score and parts. This edition allows for performances of all arrangements of the work. For more information, refer to Published Editions (Orchestral).
Andrée at the Organ
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Andante cantabile from Fyra Pianostycken (1881)
Instrumentation: Piano solo
Length: c. 5 minutes
Publisher: Women & Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture, vol. 24, pgs. 154-161.
The Andante cantabile for piano is one of Andrée’s arrangements of her Andante quasi recitativo for string orchestra. This version first appeared in the Fyra Pianostycken. She described this set of four pieces as “Dikter för piano om
Vemodet” (Poems for piano on melancholy), a label that suits the Andante cantabile well.
This collection has never been published in full, and this is the only modern edition of the Andante cantabile.