High Voice and Orchestra
(Score)
SKU:
HL.14019741
Composed
by Sir Peter Maxwell
Davies. Music Sales
America. 20th Century.
Score. Composed 1999. 508
pages. Chester Music
#CH60893. Published by
Chester Music
(HL.14019741).
ISBN
9780711935921.
7.0x10.0x1.19
inches.
A ballet in
two acts which premiered
on the stage of the Royal
Danish Theatre,
Copenhagen, on 14th March
1991. Based on the true
story of the sister of
George III, Caroline
Mathilde (1751-1775), who
at the age of 15 was sent
to Denmark to marry the
17-year-old eccentric and
schizophrenic Danish
King, Christian VII. The
ballet portrays her
unhappy marriage, the
King's growing madness
and her fatal love-affair
with Struensee, the
King's influential
physician, which leads to
their arrest, his
execution and her exile,
at the age of 20,
separated from her two
young children.Written
for full symphony
orchestra and female
chorus. Duration c. 2hrs
25mins.