Solo voices, choir, orchestra (Mezzo Voice Solo, Tenor Voice Solo, BarSolo, Bass Voice Solo, Mixed choir: SSTTBB, children choir: SS, 3Fl, 2 Ob, 2 clarinet, clarinet-B, 4bassoon, 4Hn, 2 Trp, 2 Pist, 3trombone, Op, Tb, timpani, percussion, 8, 10harp, Str) - Level 4

SKU: BA.BA05448

Lègende dramatique in four parts. Composed by Hector Berlioz. Edited by Julian Rushton. This edition: complete edition, urtext edition. Linen. New Berlioz Edition (Neue Berlioz-Ausgabe - NBE) Volume 8a/b. Complete edition, Score. Opus 24. 453/556 pages. Duration 2 hours. Baerenreiter Verlag #BA05448_00. Published by Baerenreiter Verlag (BA.BA05448).

ISBN 9790006471478. 33.2 x 26.5 cm inches. Text Language: French. Text: Berlioz, Hector / Nerval, Gérard de.

In 1828 Berlioz wrote the Huit scènes de Faust. The work was soon withdrawn but almost twenty years later each of the eight scenes found a place in the Lgende dramatique La damnation de Faust dedicated to Franz Liszt. The first part of the Damnation exposes the figure of Faust and has an introductory nature. From the second part onwards, the course of action is largely based on Goethe’s drama.

Contrasting characters and dramatic effect are of central importance in understanding Berlioz’s musical thought and his compositional process. Magic and fairy tale, incantations and ghosts, have been the ever-recurring themes of opera since the Baroque. It is precisely this fantasy in Berlioz's Faust, the “Opra de Concert en Quatre acts”, which comes very close to the spirit of Goethe's presentation.

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