Composer : | Bizet, Georges (1838 - 1875) | ||||
Instrumentation : | Woodwind quintet : Flute, Clarinet, Oboe, Horn, Bassoon | ||||
Style : | Classical | ||||
Arranger : | MAGATAGAN, MICHAEL (1960 - ) | ||||
Publisher : | MAGATAGAN, MICHAEL | ||||
Date : | 1872 | ||||
Copyright : | Public Domain | ||||
Added by magataganm, 15 Nov 2012 Georges Bizet formally Alexandre César Léopold Bizet, (1838 – 1875) was a French composer, mainly of operas. In a career cut short by his early death, he achieved few successes before his final work, Carmen, became one of the most popular and frequently performed works in the entire opera repertory. After the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71, in which Bizet served in the National Guard, he had little success with his one-act opera Djamileh, though an orchestral suite derived from his incidental music to Alphonse Daudet's play L'Arlésienne was instantly popular. The incidental music to Alphonse Daudet's play L'Arlésienne (usually translated as 'The Girl from Arles') was composed by Georges Bizet for the first performance of the play on 1 October 1872 at the Vaudeville Theatre (now known as the Paramount Theatre). It consists of 27 numbers (some only a few bars) for voice, chorus, and small orchestra, ranging from short solos to longer entr'actes. Bizet himself played the harmonium backstage at the premiere performance. The incidental music has survived and flourished, however, in the form of two suites for orchestra. Although this piece was originally written for Orchestra, I created this arrangement for Woodwind Quintet (Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, French Horn & Bassoon). Sheet central : | L'Arlésienne (201 sheet music) | |
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