 | Salieri, Antonio - Palmira. 26 Pieces for Clarinet and 3 Basset horns |
| Composer : | Salieri, Antonio (1750 - 1825) | ||
| Style : | Classical | ||
| Arranger : | (anonymus) | ||
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| Date : | ca. 1790-1800 | ||
| Copyright : | Copyright © Dietrich Demus | ||
| Added by alfredo17, 14 Nov 2020 Christian Philipp Graf Clam-Gallas (1748-1805) was owner of a pompous court in Prague and maintained an own orchestra. For a wind ensemble of this orchestra (clarinet and 3 basset horns) 26 arrangements of well known music have been prepared. They are preserved in the National Museum Prague (Sign. XLll A 128).The title of these arrangements is ‘Palmira’.Antonio Salieri‘s opera „Palmira, Regina di Persia“ has been performed first 1779 in Vienna. Only the first five pieces stem from this opera.(Nr. 1: 1st act no. 5 Marcia; Nr. 2: 2nd act no. 28 voice’s quartet; Nr. 3: 1st act no. 21 second part; Nr. 4: 1st act no. 13/14 duet Palmira Alcidoro; Nr. 5: 1st act no. 21 first part ). Nr. 6 (Lied des Waldmädchens or La Russe) is from the ballet „Das Waldmädchen“ by Paul Wranitzky, no. 7 und 8 are the famous register aria from Mozart’s Don Giovanni, no. 12 is from the heroic-comical opera „Der Spiegel von Arkadien“ by Franz Xaver Süßmayr, the march no. 14 is from the opera (first performed in 1796in Venezia) „Gli Orazi ei Curiazi“ by Domenico Cimarosa and no. 26 is a composition by François Joseph Naderman, a French harp virtuoso and composer. The remaining pieces could not be identified until now, but they are not from the opera Palmira. | |||
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