L Gazza Ladra Sc/pts
The Thieving Magpie - Overture
by Gioachino Rossini
Concert Band - Sheet Music

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Concert Band/Harmonie (Score & Parts) - Grade 5

SKU: HL.44011389

The Thieving Magpie - Overture. Composed by Gioachino Rossini. Arranged by Franco Cesarini. Mitropa Music Concert Band. Set (Score & Parts). Composed 2011. Mitropa Music #179010010M. Published by Mitropa Music (HL.44011389).

UPC: 884088892777. 9x12 inches.

In the monumental overture to the opera La Gazza Ladra (The Thieving Magpie) Gioachino Rossini employs themes from the opera itself in order to prepare the audience for the material to come. The overture contains themes that stay long in the memory of the listener, as well as spectacular use of the famous Rossini crescendo. This wonderful arrangement for concert band from Franco Cesarini retains all of La Gazza Ladra's original charm, and is ideal as a concert opener.

In de monumentale ouverture La gazza ladra (De stelende ekster) presenteert de componist thema's uit de opera zelf, om het publiek alvast een voorproefje te geven. Het idee om een ouverture met tromgeroffel laten beginnen,was absoluut nieuw. Verder bevat de ouverture thema's om nimmer te vergeten, maar ook maakt de luisteraar (hernieuwd) kennis met enkele van de spectaculairste effecten die Rossini ooit heeft voortgebracht.

In der monumentalen Ouverture zu La gazza ladra (Die diebische Elster) werden Themen aus der Oper selbst verwendet, um das Publikum auf diese schon vorzubereiten. Die Idee, die Ouverture mit einem Wirbel von zwei Solo-Trommeln beginnen zu lassen, war absolut neu. Sie enthalt Themen, die sich unausloschlich ins Gedachtnis der Horer einpragen und einige der spektakularsten Effekte, die das charakteristische Rossini-Crescendo je hervorbrachte.

Pour familiariser le public avec le sujet de son oeuvre, Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868) a noue dans la trame de sa somptueuse ouverture de La gazza ladra>/I> (La Pie voleuse) quelques themes repris ulterieurement dans l'opera. La Pie voleuse s'ouvre sur un trait de genie : un roulement de tambour (2 caisses claires). Du jamais vu ! L'ouverture est une des plus eclatantes et des plus vivantes de Rossini. Certaines de ses melodies sont profondement ancrees dans la memoire des auditeurs et contiennent de nombreux effets spectaculaires, dont le legendaire <>.

La Gazza ladra e un'opera lirica di Gioacchino Rossini su libretto di Giovanni Gherardini. Il soggetto fu tratto dal dramma La Pie voleuse ou La Servante de Palaiseau (1815) di Theodore Badouin d'Aubigny e Luis-Charles Caignez. La prima rappresentazione ebbe luogo il 31 maggio 1817 al Teatro alla Scala di Milano. L'opera, un tempo famosissima, viene oggi rappresentata raramente, mentre e rimasta nel repertorio sinfonico la celeberrima ouverture, la cui introduzione e affidata al rullante.

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