Overture to Schiller's Demetrius
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Orchestra Piccolo Flute, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 3 Horn, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, Tuba, Timpani, Percussion, 2 Violin, Viola, Cello, Contrabass - Level 5
SKU: CA.5011000
Composed by Josef Gabriel Rheinberger. Edited by Felix Loy. This edition: Paperbound. German title: Demetrius-Ouverture Pod. Full score. Composed 1878. Op. 110. 68 pages. Carus Verlag #CV 50.110/00. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.5011000).ISBN 9790007113445. Language: all languages.
In the sphere of orchestral music Rheinberger is largely unknown today, but during his lifetime he had great successes. Along with two symphonies and a piano concerto he wrote, among other works, three concert overtures, the second of which, composed in 1880, had as its literary basis Schiller's dramatic fragment "Demetrius". This work was praised thus in the "Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik" in 1880: "A fresh hand, feeling for interesting harmony and flowing melody are revealed in this formally faultless, brilliantly orchestrated work...".