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Giacomo Meyerbeer : Jephtas Gelübde (Jephtha's Vow) - Vocal/Piano Score / text compiled, edited and introduced by Robert Ignatius Letellier ; music edited by Mark Starr.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Operas--Scores.
- Operas.
- Operas--Librettos.
- Meyerbeer, Giacomo, 1791-1864.
- Meyerbeer, Giacomo.
- Jephthah (Biblical judge).
- Jephthah.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (538 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Meyerbeer's first opera, Jephtas Gelübde, has a libretto by the German academic Alois Schreiber, based on a Biblical theme taken from chapters 11-12 of the Book of Judges. The story centres on the vow the ancient Israelite Judge made to God in return for victory over the enemy: ""If thou wilt give the Ammonites into my hand, then whatever comes forth from the doors of my house to meet me, when I return victorious . . . I will offer him up for a burnt offering"". The first person he was fatefull...
- Contents:
- TABLE OF CONTENTS; FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; LIBRETTO; OVERTURE; ACT I; Akt 2; ACT 3; APPENDIX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 27, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 1-4438-7024-2
- OCLC:
- 893741088
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