Verdi, Giuseppe - "Pater Noster" for Woodwind Quintet Quintette à vent : Flûte, Clarinette, Hautbois, Cor, Basson |
Compositeur : | Verdi, Giuseppe (1813 - 1901) | ||||
Instrumentation : | Quintette à vent : Flûte, Clarinette, Hautbois, Cor, Basson | ||||
Genre : | Classique | ||||
Arrangeur : Editeur : | MAGATAGAN, MICHAEL (1960 - ) | ||||
Droit d'auteur : | Public Domain | ||||
Ajoutée par magataganm, 26 Mar 2023 Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (1813 – 1901) was an Italian composer best known for his operas. He was born near Busseto to a provincial family of moderate means, receiving a musical education with the help of a local patron. Verdi came to dominate the Italian opera scene after the era of Gioachino Rossini, Vincenzo Bellini, and Gaetano Donizetti, whose works significantly influenced him. In his early operas, Verdi demonstrated a sympathy with the Risorgimento movement which sought the unification of Italy. He also participated briefly as an elected politician. The chorus "Va, pensiero" from his early opera Nabucco (1842), and similar choruses in later operas, were much in the spirit of the unification movement, and the composer himself became esteemed as a representative of these ideals. An intensely private person, Verdi did not seek to ingratiate himself with popular movements. As he became professionally successful, he was able to reduce his operatic workload and sought to establish himself as a landowner in his native region. He surprised the musical world by returning, after his success with the opera Aida (1871), with three late masterpieces: his Requiem (1874), and the operas Otello (1887) and Falstaff (1893). His operas remain extremely popular, especially the three peaks of his 'middle period': Rigoletto, Il trovatore and La traviata. The bicentenary of his birth in 2013 was widely celebrated in broadcasts and performances. This five-voice work is an unusual and interesting piece, of moderate difficulty and well worth investigation for any concert programme. It ranges in mood from meditative, devotional stillness to dramatic contrasts of a more extrovert, operatic nature. Verdi composed Pater Noster in 1880 soon after writing his monumental Requiem. The text he used for this music is in Italian even though the title is in Latin. This mystery is not too difficult too solve as Verdi was an ardent nationalist and was determined to promote Italian culture and history with any means possible. Pater Noster (Our Father who art in heaven....) is one of Verdi's least familiar works, yet of supreme beauty. Source: Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Usper). Although originally written for Chorus (SSATB), I created this Interpretation of "Pater Noster" for Woodwind Quintet (Flute, Oboe, Bb Clarinet, French Horn & Bassoon). Partition centrale : | Pater Noster (2 partitions) | |