Czerny: Op. 520, Rondino Brilliant on a Norwegian theme

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Czerny: Op. 520, Rondino Brilliant on a Norwegian theme

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More precisely: Carl Czerny's Op. 520 -- 3 Rondinos Brilliants on Spanish, Russian and Norwegian themes, with particular interest in the Norwegian one.

I don't know if this has ever been published, but it's worth a shot. I wrote the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wien an e-mail about a week ago asking about it, but haven't yet received a reply.

Does anyone have any information on it?

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Re: Czerny: Op. 520, Rondino Brilliant on a Norwegian theme

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It seems to first have been published, according to Worldcat.org, by R. Cocks & Co. of London in 1839 (Hofmeister has it as published by Simrock in the same year.) Unfortunately that's all I know right now though...
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Re: Czerny: Op. 520, Rondino Brilliant on a Norwegian theme

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You can find it (only the Norwegian - No 3) at SBB Berlin:
http://musikipac.staatsbibliothek-berli ... 1&cop=:osy
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Re: Czerny: Op. 520, Rondino Brilliant on a Norwegian theme

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Thank you both for investigating. That sorts out which tune it is -- it is used in two well-known national-romantic hymns; "Norges skål", better known as "For Norge, kjempers fødeland" ("Toast to Norway" and "To Norway, Birthland of Giants", respectively) by Johan Nordahl Brun, and "Småguttenes nasjonalsang" ("Young Boys' National Anthem") by Henrik Wergeland.

The melody is however, as that label points out, assumed to be written by the French composer André Ernest Modeste Grétry, so not very Norwegian, really. Sort of a let-down, but I'll still try to grab this one. :-)

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Re: Czerny: Op. 520, Rondino Brilliant on a Norwegian theme

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the whole set can be ordered at British Library:

Music Collections h.494.(18.)

http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libw ... Text1)=520
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