SKU: BR.OB-5142-27
ISBN 9790004329559. 10 x 12.5 inches.
Despite the numbering, the overture Leonore No. 2 was Beethoven's first effort to precede his only opera with an adequate introduction. It had been composed last minute and in between the rehearsals for the premiere of the opera Leonore oder Der Triumph der ehelichen Liebe (Leonore, or The Triumph of Marital Love) on 20 November 1805 at the Theater an der Wien. This comprehensive, programmatic work was met with incomprehension at first performances just like the opera itself. Beethoven felt compelled to re-write Leonore completely and presented it under its new title Fidelio. In 1806 he revised the overture to such an extent that a symphonic sonata movement emerged; with another incorrect numbering, Leonore No. 3 has gone down in music history and above all it has achieved a regular place in concert repertory. And in order to complete the confusion: written in 1806/07, only Overture No. 1 is Beethoven's chronologically last effort to write an overture for Leonore, before he - many years later - put an end to this infinite subject with the so-called Fidelio overture for the third version of the opera. After all, thanks to the search after a dramaturgically convincing beginning of the opera, the music world has been enriched by four quite different orchestra scores.The music text of the present score is based on Volume 11 of the Supplements to the Complete Edition. The performance material of the Fidelio and Leonore No. 3 overtures is available in Breitkopf Urtext editions..
SKU: BR.PB-5142
ISBN 9790004208878. 10 x 12.5 inches.
SKU: BR.OB-5142-19
ISBN 9790004329535. 10 x 12.5 inches.
SKU: BR.OB-5142-30
ISBN 9790004329566. 10 x 12.5 inches.
SKU: BR.OB-5142-15
ISBN 9790004329511. 10 x 12.5 inches.
SKU: BR.OB-5142-23
ISBN 9790004329542. 10 x 12.5 inches.
SKU: BR.EB-2066
ISBN 9790004160770. 7.5 x 10.5 inches.
Text by the composer Translation: engl. (M. E. Browne) Place: Bagdad Characters: Der Kalif (baritone) - Baba Mustapha, ein Kadi (tenor) - Margiana, seine Tochter (soprano) - Bostana, eine Verwandte (alto) - Nureddin (tenor) - Abul Hassan Ali Ebn Bekar, Barbier (bass) - 1. Muezzin (bass) - 2. Muezzin (tenor) - 3. Muezzin (tenor) - Ein Sklave (tenor) - Vier Bewaffnete (2 Tenore, 2 Basse) Corneliuss opera got off to a bad start, to say the least: the scandal provoked at the first performance in Weimar in 1858 led to protests and ultimately to the resignation of Franz Liszt as court opera director. It was not until 1904 that the opera was played again in that city and proved that the scandal had not been caused by the work but by Liszts aesthetic views. The score was long considered as the ideal example of a musical comedy with a far too complicated plot. Today, however, many prominent commentators beg to differ: This is one of the sunniest scores ever written. Music in the spirit of Mozart and Mendelssohn: a highly delicate mixture of classical formal rigor and romantic irony, heightened with just a touch of exquisite sensuality that has just wafted in from the Orient. It is practically incomprehensible how Cornelius could have been regarded as a composer of the Wagner school for practically a century. With its intricate fusing of comedy, lyricism and sentimentality, it is precisely the opera that Schubert, Schumann, E.T.A. Hoffmann and Mendelssohn were unable to write. (Hans Zender).
SKU: BR.OB-5255-16
ISBN 9790004342237. 10 x 12.5 inches.
Robert Schumann placed great importance on the genre of the overture, as can be seen in the chronology of the genesis of his sole opera Genoveva. In his Haushaltbuch the composer entered as his first idea thoughts of an overture, then produced the score even before having begun working on the actual opera. Schumann was right on the mark when he suspected that the overture alone should enjoy a favorable reception. The Overture appeared in print at about the same time that the opera was premiered. It established itself in the concert hall as an autonomous work and ranks today - along with the Manfred Overture - among Schumann's most beloved concert overtures. The Genoveva Overture is being released in a text-critical Breitkopf Urtext edition for the first time. The main source is the first printing revised by Schumann.The Urtext debut of Schumann's beloved overture.
SKU: BR.OB-5255-19
ISBN 9790004342244. 10 x 12.5 inches.
SKU: BR.EB-9433
ISBN 9790004189108. 9 x 12 inches. German.
Text by the composerTranslation: engl. (E. J. Dent), ital. (V. Levi), port. (G. de Medeiros)Place and time: Bergamo, around the 18th century.Characters: Ser Matteo del Sarto, master tailor (baritone) - Abbate Cospicuo (baritone) - Dottore Bombasto (bass) - Leandro, Cavaliere (tenor) - Arlecchino (speaking part) - Colombina, Arlecchino's wife (mezzo-soprano) - Annunziata, Matteo's wife - Zwei Sbirren - Ein Karrner - a Donkey - People at the windows (silent parts)The idea behind this work was to combine a major speaking role with a part for a female singer and orchestra in the spirit of the opera buffa. The overall tone is pacifistic and anti-bourgeois. Busoni's inspiration was that of an opera-play in the style of Italian improvised comedy; he wanted types and characters on stage whose varying typology would provide the source of conflict ... The title hero absconds with the young wife of the Dante-reading tailor Matteo. He returns as a false barbarian commander, as a husband who engages in a duel with the suitor Count Leandro, and as a conqueror who announces the moral of the story in the epilogue: how to be able to bow in rags and still retain one's dignity and rights. The piece takes a turn for the absurd when the Abbate, at the sight of Leandro, who is presumed dead, begins to sing a chorale-like song of praise to the donkey of Providence who comes trotting in at that moment. This introduces the most musically refined number in the piece, the quartet, in which Leandro's love aria and his duet with Columbina satirize the attitudes prevalent in Italian opera from Scarlatti to Verdi. Musically, Busoni uses throughout the entire work an idiom of dance-like, blissfully transparent comedy and hides harmonic audacities behind touches of lightness. The orchestral sound radiates an incomparable brightness and buoyant elegance. (Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt, 1967)In the appendix, EB 9433 contains the later composed aria Wer siegt? Wer fallt?..
SKU: BR.OB-5255-15
ISBN 9790004342220. 10 x 12.5 inches.
SKU: BR.OB-5255-30
ISBN 9790004342275. 10 x 12.5 inches.
SKU: BR.PB-5549-07
ISBN 9790004213599. 6.5 x 9 inches.
SKU: HL.49045553
ISBN 9790001164467. UPC: 841886031258. 8.25x11.75x0.985 inches. German.
Aribert Reimann's second opera Melusine, premiered in 1971, was created before Lear. 'Yvan Goll modernized the story in 1922 by setting the story in the present day: Melusine kills to protect nature, but her attempt to evade responsibility for man and nature is doomed to fail' (Claus H. Henneberg, librettist). The highly topical early work of the prominent opera composer is now available as study score for the first time.
SKU: BR.OB-5255-23
ISBN 9790004342251. 10 x 12.5 inches.
SKU: BR.OB-5255-27
ISBN 9790004342268. 10 x 12.5 inches.
SKU: BT.ALHE04624
French.
Jacques Offenbach: La Belle Hélène (Opera).
SKU: BR.CHB-4925-02
ISBN 9790004409015. 6.5 x 9.5 inches.
Duration: full eveningText by Lorenzo da PonteTranslation: German (H. Levi) Place and time: Count Almavivas Palace, 18th CenturyCharacters: Count Almaviva (bass) - Countess Almaviva (soprano) - Susanna (soprano) - Figaro (bass) - Cherubino (soprano) - Marcellina (soprano) - Basilio (tenor) - Don Curzio (tenor) - Bartolo (bass) - Antonio (bass) - Barbarina (soprano) - Two Girls (soprano, alto).
SKU: HL.49033068
ISBN 9783795756000. 9.0x12.0x0.664 inches. German.
Whoever pursues piano playing as a hobby mostly focusses on two things: playing from music, with as wide a range of works from classical, pop and jazz music as possible, and playing without the book, i.e. the ability to accompany melodies with chords, play songs by ear and improvise freely. In this volume, both topics are dealt with thoroughly and systematically. Whereas most piano methods prefer either classical or popular music, both kinds of music are well-balanced herein.Clearly structured chapters cover a variety of interesting topics: the Baroque, Classical and Romantic eras, popular piano styles (e.g. ragtime, boogie, rock 'n' roll, pop ballad), the blues and the genres of opera, operetta and ballet.
SKU: BT.DHP-1185897-404
ISBN 9789043154574. German.
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