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Abendklänge, WAB 110

Abendklänge
by Anton Bruckner
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Key E minor
Catalogue WAB 110
Form Character piece
Composed 7 June 1866 (1866-06-07): Linz
Dedication Hugo von Grienberger
Instrumental Violin and piano

Abendklänge (Evening harmonies), WAB 110, is a character piece, which Anton Bruckner composed in 1866.

Bruckner composed the piece on 7 June 1866. He dedicated it to Hugo von Grienberger, a civil servant in the district court. It is not known when the piece was performed.

The original manuscript is stored in the archive of the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek. A facsimile of it was first published in Band I, pp. 104–105 of the Göllerich/Auer biography. The work is issued in Gesamtausgabe, Band XII/7.

The 36-bar long work in E minor is scored for violin and piano. Of the 36 bars only 14 (bars 17-20 and 23-32) are played by the violin.

There are two recordings of Abendklänge:


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