"The Impresario" ("Der Schauspieldirektor") Overture
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Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Arranged by Brock Lupton. Classical. With (information from Wikipedia) The arrangement includes the following instrumentation: Flutes 1 and 2 (no piccolo is required). 82 pages. Brock Lupton #431049. Published by Brock Lupton (A0.942411).The following is a program note which may be used with this concert band arrangement Der Schauspieldirektor (The Impresario), K. 486, is a comic Singspiel written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a German libretto by Gottlieb Stephanie, an Austrian impresario. Mozart wrote the opera as his entry in a musical competition sponsored on February 7, 1786 by Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II at the Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna. The competition was to pit a German singspiel against an Italian opera. The competing Italian entry was the opera buffa Prima la musica, poi le parole (First the Music, then the Words), by Antonio Salieri. It has been noted that the character and scale of the overture are similar to those of the overture to Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), which was written at the same time and premiered later the same year. There are only four vocal numbers in the score, and the musical content (about 30 minutes, including the overture) is surrounded by much spoken dialogue, topical in its day. In modern times, the text is usually completely rewritten. The plot of Der Schauspieldirektor mainly concerns the woes of an impresario as he deals with a troupe of performers, especially the uncooperative women singers, each of whom insists that her part is the most important. (information from Wikipedia)
The Moslem Turks were near neighbours to the Austrian. Their "exotic" music brought a delicious shiver of delight to Viennese audiences of Mozart’s time. Mozart exploited this fascination in the opera "Die Entfuhrung aus dem Seraglio" ("The Kidnapping from the Harem"), partly by the use of the bass drum and triangle, which would suggest to his audience the music of the Turkish bands. Though not part of Mozart’s original score to "Der Schauspieldirektor", the use of percussion brings this Mozartean effect to the arrangement.
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