Concert Band; Orchestra
1.1.2.1: 2.2.1.0:
Timp.Perc(2): Harm: Str
(9-8-7-6-5 in set)
SKU: AP.36-A929501
Arranged by Erich
Wolfgang Korngold, R.
Mark Rogers, and ed./arr.
Leo Artok. Full
Orchestra. Kalmus
Masterworks Library.
Masterwork. Score.
LudwigMasters
Publications #36-A929501.
Published by
LudwigMasters
Publications
(AP.36-A929501).
ISBN
9781638875192. UPC:
735816239497.
English.
When Max
Reinhardt was engaged to
direct a German language
production of
Shakespeare's Much Ado
About Nothing at the
Vienna Volksbühne in
1918, he asked Korngold
to compose the incidental
music. The production,
under the German title
Viel Lärmen um Nichts
did not open until May 6,
1920 at the Schönbrunn
Palace Theater. In the
pit, the composer led
members of the Vienna
Philharmonic, performing
no less than 18 pieces of
music. In the meantime,
due to the tardy premiere
of the play, Korngold had
already extracted a
five-movement orchestral
suite which garnered much
praise when performed
three months before the
play's opening night. The
five movements included:
1. the Overture; 2. Scene
in the Bridal Chamber; 3.
Holzapfel und Schlehwein
(a mock-serious scene);
4. Intermezzo (Garden
Scene); and 5. Hornpipe.
When the play moved to
Vienna's Burgtheater
(more than 80
performances) and later
to the Rezidenz Theater
in Munich, the music
continued to attract much
attention. Demand for the
music was such that
Korngold arranged the
suite into versions for
violin and piano (four
pieces), and for solo
piano (three pieces).
German composer-arranger
Leo Artok (1885-1935)
arranged the most popular
three items (1. Hornpipe;
2. Garden Scene; and 3.
In the Bridal Chamber)
for small orchestra,
which were then published
by Schott in 1926. This
newly engraved edition of
the Artok arrangement,
offered with a new full
score for the first time,
has been completed by R.
Mark Rogers. All editions
noted above are available
from the publisher.
Instrumentation: 1.1.2.1:
2.2.1.0:
Timp.Perc(2).Harm: Str
(9.8.7.6.5 in set).
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months.