L'Arlesienne Suite No. 1
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SKU: HL.49010311
Composed by Georges Bizet. Edited by Lesley A. Wright. Arranged by Lesley Wright. This edition: Paperback/Soft Cover. Sheet music. Edition Schott. New URTEXT Edition. Classical, Romantic. Study Score. 100 pages. Eulenburg Edition #ETP828. Published by Eulenburg Edition (HL.49010311).ISBN 9783795768232. UPC: 841886000704. 5.25x7.5x0.268 inches.
The premiere of Daudet's play, L'Arlesienne, with incidental music by Bizet, given at the Theatre du Vaudeville on 30 September 1872, was a devastating event for both playwright and composer and the production was removed from the repertory after 19 performances. The critic Johannes Weber, however, was alert to the quality of Bizet's score and suggested that the composer should excerpt and rescore several pieces for the Concerts populaires where 'the lovely music would be better appreciated than at the Vaudeville'. Bizet must have moved rather quickly to follow Weber's suggestion, for the premiere of the first Arlesienne suite took place only six weeks later at the Concerts populaires on 10 November 1872 and the work in its new abridged form was soon taken up by many other orchestras. Bizet, however, did not turn to preparing a second suite from L'Arlesienne. Some four years after Bizet's death, the success of the first suite may have prompted his original publisher to commission the arrangement of more excerpts from the Arlesienne MS from Bizet's good friend Ernest Guiraud who had earlier written recitatives and put together a ballet for Carmen.
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Song List (11)
- Preface
- Editorial Notes
- Vorwort
- Revisionsbericht
- Notes editoriales
- Textual Notes
- Orchestration/Orchesterbesetzung/Instrumentation
- I. Prelude
- II. Minuetto
- III. Adagietto
- IV. Carillon