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Arrangement of a string quartet with the same name (1922). Completed 1938; the first performance was a direct broadcast on 1st January 1939 (The Radio Orchestra under Jean Sibelius). Also under opus 117.
Just before Christmas 1922 Walter Parviainen commissioned a festive cantata from Sibelius for the 25-year celebration of the Säynätsalo sawmills. On going through his sketches, Sibelius quickly decided on a small work of only a few pages, to be played by a string quartet. The work may have been based on very early sketches, perhaps even on the plan for the oratorio Marjatta from the beginning of the century.
In 1929 the composer's niece Riitta Sibelius got married, and Andante festivo was performed at the wedding by two combined string quartets. It is possible that the composer also made changes to the work for this performance.
Sibelius keeps up the basic tempo with high professionalism, creating unforced rubatos. Using his privilege as the composer of the work, he now and then deviates considerably from the tempi in the score.
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