The first movement of this piece is the only one in sonata form, and opens with a series of rising triads in the violins and violas played in a rapid eighth-sixteenth-sixteenth rhythm over a sustained G, the home key of the movement. The third movement of this piece is in two parts, a Gavotte marked Allegretto and a Musette notable for the imitatio
The first movement of this piece is the only one in sonata form, and opens with a series of rising triads in the violins and violas played in a rapid eighth-sixteenth-sixteenth rhythm over a sustained G, the home key of the movement. The third movement of this piece is in two parts, a Gavotte marked Allegretto and a Musette notable for the imitation of a bagpipe drone in the cellos. The fourth movement, marked Andante Religioso, is an homage to Bach's Air on a G String, while the final movement is a Rigaudon. Originally written for solo piano, but almost always performed nowadays in its version for string orchestra, this is, for 10 points, what suite of eighteenth-century-style dances written in 1884 for the bicentennial of the birth of the "Molière of the North" by Edvard Grieg.   
The first movement of this piece is the only one in sonata form, and opens with a series of rising triads in the violins and violas played in a rapid eighth-sixteenth-sixteenth rhythm over a sustained G, the home key of the movement.
From {Holberg's Time} or {Holberg} Suite or {Fra Holbergs tid} or {Aus Holbergs Zeits}