Ungdomssang means Song of Youth and was composed by the Norwegian Agathe Backer Grøndahl.
This song was quite interesting to transcribe, since I did not really get the feel of youth when listening to it. It has a melancholic melody and a somehow sluggish, lethargic move. For this reason, I selected the painting Midsummer's Eve in Norway by Christian Skredsvig in the National Gallery of Denmark. There are people on a boat, apparently dressed for dancing and accompagnied by a accordeon player. But they look rather afraid of falling out of the boat. Also the landscape is quite dark. Compared to these colours, even midsummer in Spain (which is shorter than in Norway) has more light at any time of the night.
Midsummer's Eve in Norway by Christian Skredsvig - National Gallery of Denmark, Denmark - CC0.
https://www.europeana.eu/en/item/2020903/KMS1309
In any case, it is a sweet song, and it is suggested to be an easy piece, somehow a level 1. Well, this depends on how you define Level 1. According to Piano Marvel, I'd suggest that it is a Level 4-6.
Agathe Ursula Backer was born in Holmestrand in 1847, in a wealthy and art-loving home, as the second youngest of four sisters, all gifted in drawing and music. In 1857 she moved with her family to Christiania, where she studied with Otto Winther-Hjelm, Halfdan Kjerulf and Ludvig Mathias Lindeman. Between 1865 and 1867 she became a pupil of Theodor Kullak and studied composition under Richard Wuerst at the Akademie der Tonkunst in Berlin, where she lived together with her sister Harriet Backer. She won fame there with her interpretation of Beethoven's "Emperor" Concerto.
After her arrival to Norway in 1868, she debuted with Edvard Grieg, then 26 years old, as conductor of the Philharmonic Society. A recommendation from Ole Bull led to further studies with Hans von Bülow in Florence in 1871. Later the same year she played at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, becoming a pupil of Franz Liszt in Weimar in 1873. In 1874 she married the conductor and singing teacher Olaus Andreas Grøndahl, and was generally known thereafter as Agathe Backer Grøndahl. During the second half of the 1870s she built up an outstanding pianist career with a series of concerts in the Nordic countries, also playing with very great success in London and Paris. (Wikipedia)
Since I didn't find any digitalized version, I made my own transcription based on the scores published in IMSLP.
As you can see, I arranged the notes along upper and lower part of the great stave, since it is played always with both hands, even though, this is not as it appears in the original sheet music.
Feel free to comment on Musescore or Youtube, if you have suggestions for improvement.
This piece was arranged and digitalized for Musescore and Piano Marvel by Tabea Hirzel (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).
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