Andante festivo

*Andante festivo*
Andante festivo
by Jean Sibelius
	The composer (c. 1923)
Catalogue	JS 34a (string quartet); JS 34b (str., timp.);
Composed	1922, arr. 1938
Publisher	JS 34a: Warner Chappell (2000); JS 34b: Westerlund (1940);
Duration	5 mins.
Premiere
Date	28 December 1922
Location	Säynätsalo, Finland
Performers	Paavo Kesäniemi (violin); Eero Vänttinen (violin); Eino Fredriksson (viola); Onni Fredriksson (cello);

Andante festivo (Italian pronunciation: [anˈdante feˈstiːvo]), JS 34a–b, is a single-movement chamber work for two violins, viola, and cello written in 1922 by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. In 1938, the composer arranged the piece for string orchestra and timpani. On 1 January 1939, Sibelius conducted this version of Andante festivo during a live, worldwide broadcast, making it the only sound document of him interpreting his own music.

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