Concert Band
La Gazza Ladra
Die diebische Elster / The Thieving Magpie
Ouvertüre / Overture
Concert Band
La Gazza Ladra
Die diebische Elster / The Thieving Magpie
Ouvertüre / Overture
Composer
Arranger
Occasion
Performance time
00:09:58
Grade Level
Höchststufe
Publisher
Rundel
Size
A4
Info
Full Score + Parts
Order Number
MVSR2046
Release Date
2023 / 2000
Info
Gioachino Antonio Rossini, born in Pesaro, Italy, in 1792, was undoubtedly one of the most outstanding opera composers of the 19th century. The overtures to his operas were particularly popular and quickly found their way into the standard repertoire of countless orchestras. Alongside the preludes to "The Barber of Seville", "William Tell" and "The Italian Girl in Algiers", the lively and memorable overture to the opera "The Thieving Magpie" is by far one of his best-known and most frequently performed pieces.
Rossini wrote this overture in just a few hours on the day of the opera's premiere. While he was writing, the score pages gradually travelled to the copyists. They were standing by to copy the parts. Impressive proof that brilliant masterpieces do not necessarily require a long period of preparation!
Rossini wrote this overture in just a few hours on the day of the opera's premiere. While he was writing, the score pages gradually travelled to the copyists. They were standing by to copy the parts. Impressive proof that brilliant masterpieces do not necessarily require a long period of preparation!
Keywords
Animals
Arrangement / Transcription
Bird / Birds
Classical Music
Gioacchino Rossini
Italy
New Year's Concert
New Year's Eve concert
NEWLY revised
Opera
Orchestral Transcriptions
Overture
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symphonic
Tuscany
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La Gazza Ladra
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Die diebische Elster / The Thieving Magpie
Ouvertüre / Overture
During Rossini’s second creative period (around 1813 to 1817) his inclination increased, to borrow musical material from earlier works, when time could not have been responsible. While there is the increased occurrence of self-borrowing, Rossini, at the same time, commenced more and more to use themes from an opera in the overture in order to link them more closely. The overture to “La gazza ladra” (“The Thieving Magpie”) is the most striking example of Rossini’s new approach, as in character and thematic references it is so intimately related to the opera as to be programmatic. The plain contrast between martial themes and lyrical sections immediately captures the dramatic core of the opera.
Grade Level GB: 8+
Grade Level USA: 6...
https://www.rundel.de/en/
Die diebische Elster / The Thieving Magpie
Ouvertüre / Overture
During Rossini’s second creative period (around 1813 to 1817) his inclination increased, to borrow musical material from earlier works, when time could not have been responsible. While there is the increased occurrence of self-borrowing, Rossini, at the same time, commenced more and more to use themes from an opera in the overture in order to link them more closely. The overture to “La gazza ladra” (“The Thieving Magpie”) is the most striking example of Rossini’s new approach, as in character and thematic references it is so intimately related to the opera as to be programmatic. The plain contrast between martial themes and lyrical sections immediately captures the dramatic core of the opera.
Grade Level GB: 8+
Grade Level USA: 6...
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