Orchestra
SKU:
HL.50510026
Score. By Gabor
Darvas. By Peter Ilyich
Tchaikovsky. Arranged by
Gabor Darvas. Romantic.
EMB. Score Only. 112
pages. Editio Musica
Budapest #Z40072.
Published by Editio
Musica Budapest
(HL.50510026).
ISBN
9790080400722. UPC:
073999679762.
5.5x8.0x0.326 inches.
Gabor
Darvas.
Inspired by
his friend, the composer
Balakirev Tchaikovsky
decided in 1869 to write
an overture to
Shakespeare's drama Romeo
and Juliet. The work was
completed the same year
and received its premiere
soon thereafter, on March
4th, 1870 in Moscow under
the direction of Nikolay
Rubinstein. Following the
performance the composer
worked over the piece
again at Balakirev's
instigation: he wrote a
new introduction and
altered the return and
the end, too. The new
version was first
performed under the baton
of Napravnik in St
Petersburg on February
5th, 1872. By that time
it had become clear that
the composition was
closer to the genre of
symphonic poem than to
that of a theatrical
preludewhich is also
indicated by the
subtitle: 'fantasy
overture'. In the 1880s
Tchaikovsky carried out
further changes in the
score and thus the third
version of Romeo and
Juliet emerged that was
first performed by
Ippolitov-Ivanov as
conductor in Tbilisi on
April 19th, 1886.
Gabor Darvas
