The Dead City Opera in three acts by Erich Wolfgang Korngold Miniature Score - Digital Sheet Music
By Erich Wolfgang Korngold
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The Dead City
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SKU: S9.Q47498
Opera in three acts. Composed by Erich Wolfgang Korngold. This edition: study score. Ernst eulenburg - opera - study score. Eulenburg Miniature Scores. Study score. Op. 12. Duration 145' 0. Schott Music - Digital #Q47498. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q47498).German.
This masterpiece, composed by Erich Wolfgang Korngold when he was only 23, was one of the great stage successes of the 1920s and 30s before being removed from theatre schedules by the National Socialists. Rediscovered in the 1970s, it has enjoyed continuing popularity ever since. The libretto was compiled by the composer’s father, the music critic Julius Korngold, writing under the pseudonym ‘Paul Schott’, a combination of the name of the protagonist and the publishing house. A vivacious theatre group comes to liven up the gloomy city of Bruges (here, a symbol of death) and the widower Paul is forced to decide between the past and the present. Korngold was fascinated by this symbolic plot and created an iridescent orchestral score washed in vivid colours. A variety of operatic devices are intermingled as if viewed through a kaleidoscope: opulent melodic arias, advanced harmonies, psychoanalytic profundity and cinematic transitions oscillating between reality and dream worlds guarantee the continuing modernity of this work up to the present day.
"Die tote Stadt" war von Anfang an ein durchschlagender Erfolg. Bei der Uraufführung 1920 war der Komponist Korngold, der später in Hollywood Karriere als Filmkomponist machte, gerade einmal 23 Jahre alt. Das Libretto, ein vielschichtig gebrochenes, morbides Liebesdrama zwischen dem um seine verstorbene Frau Marie trauernden Paul und Maries Ebenbild Marietta, beruht auf dem symbolistischen Kultroman "Burges-la-Morte" von Georges Rodenbach von 1892.
3 (2. u. 3. auch Picc.) · 2 · Engl. Hr. · 2 · Bassklar. · 2 · Kfg. - 4 · 3 · Basstrp. · 3 · 1 - P. S. (Glsp. · Xyl. · Trgl. · hg. Beck. · Tamt. · Tamb. · kl. Tr. · gr. Tr. m. Beck. · Ratsche · Rute) (1 Spieler) - Mand. · 2 Hfn. · Cel. · Klav. · Harm. - Str. -
Bühnenmusik: 2 Es-Klar. - 2 Trp. - S. (7 tiefe Gl. · Trgl. · Beck. · kl. Tr. · gr. Tr. · Tamb. · Windmasch.) - Org. -
Erhöht aufgestellt (über dem Orchesterraum): 2 Trp. · 2 Pos. (jeweils möglichst mehrfach besetzt).
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