Orchestra (Score) - Grade
4
SKU: HL.14030004
Composed by Jean
Sibelius. Music Sales
America. Classical.
Score. Composed 2002. 38
pages. Edition Wilhelm
Hansen #WH30963.
Published by Edition
Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.14030004).
ISBN
9788759818053.
11.75x16.5x0.35
inches.
Prelude to
the Tempest Op.109 No.1
comes from an hour-long
score of incidental music
for orchestra by Danish
composer, Jean Sibelius.
In 1925 Sibelius was
commissioned by the
Danish Royal Theatre to
create incidental music
for Shakespeare's The
Tempest. The resulting 34
miniatures represent
Sibelius at his most
modernistic and it is
both rousing and powerful
yet elsewhere light,
gentle and airy, fully
reflecting the breadth
and depth of
Shakespeare's
characters.