Orchestral works : the incidental music to Struensee, Fackeltanze, Overtures, marches, ballet music / Giacomo Meyerbeer ; compiled and introduced by Robert Ignatius Letellier ; piano score.

Format:

Musical score

Author/Creator:

Meyerbeer, Giacomo, 1791-1864.

Contributor:

Letellier, Robert Ignatius.

Standardized Title:

Selections; arranged

Language:

Multiple languages

Subjects (All):

Piano music, Arranged.

Incidental music.

Marches (Piano), Arranged.

Operas--Excerpts, Arranged.

Operas.

Operas--Vocal scores with piano.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (416 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, c2009.

Language Note:

Multiple languages

Summary:

This volume brings together a collection of the orchestral works of the composer Giacomo Meyerbeer. He is remembered as one of the great figures of 19th-century opera-a master of brilliant vocalism, impassioned drama and vivid orchestral power and colour. His operas are noted for their precise construction and urgent propulsion, and never linger for long in music for its own sake. Nevertheless, the orchestral passages are integral to the dramatic logic: brief thematically pertinent preludes a...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; THE INCIDENTAL MUSIC TO MICHAEL BEER'S TRAGEDY STRUENSEE (1846); FOUR FACKELTANZE (MARCHES AUX FLAMBEAUX) (TORCH DANCES); FEST-MARSCH ZU SCHILLERS 100JAHRIGER GEBURTSFEIER (SCHILLER MARCH); KRONUNGSMARSCH FUR ZWEI ORCHESTER; FEST-OUVERTURE IM MARSCHSTYL; ROBERT LE DIABLE (1831); LES HUGUENOTS (1836); LE PROPHETE (1849); L'ÉTOILE DU NORD (1854); LE PARDON DE PLOERMEL (1859); L'AFRICAINE (1865); APPENDIX

Notes:

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

19th century reprints of piano arrangements of various orchestral works, including orchestral sections from operas; some in vocal score format.

2nd work originally for military band; 4th work originally for 2 wind bands.

With introduction.

ISBN:

1-4438-2291-4

OCLC:

830167602