SKU: CA.5022500
Composed by Josef Gabriel
Rheinberger. Edited by
Felix Loy. This edition:
Complete edition, linen
cover. Josef Gabriel
Rheinberger - Complete
Works. German title:
Konzertouverturen. Josef
Gabriel Rheinberger.
Complete Works. Full
score (complete edition /
selected edition). 208
pages. Carus Verlag #CV
50.225/00. Published by
Carus Verlag
(CA.5022500).
ISBN
9790007090739.
Rhei
nberger's concert
overtures are completely
beholden to the tradition
of the genre established
at least since the 1820s.
The spread of this genre
was favored in equal
measure by the growth of
bourgeois musical culture
and the overwhelming
model of Beethoven's nine
symphonies, which sowed a
certain perplexity and
discouragement among
composers of the next
generation and led them
to turn increasingly to
the smaller
single-movement genre in
their orchestral music.
Soon a generic
distinction arose between
two types of overture.
One was the autonomous
overture, whose character
results from its specific
introductory function.
Rheinberger's Academic
Overture follows in this
same line of tradition.
The other type was the
overture with
subject-matter, in which
the romantic inclination
to recreate extra-musical
material in music found
an expecially fruitful
field of exploration.
Having originated as the
opening item of an opera
or play, the overture
had, after all, long been
accustomed to
accommodating the
contents of the work that
followed. The concert
overture on an
extra-musical subject is
in turn associated in
particular with the works
of Felix Mendelssohn
Bartholdy. Rheinberger
too, closely modeled his
opp. 11 and 110 on
Mendelssohn's
overtures.
The man sowed
