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Tannhäuser Festival

Richard Wagner

Tannhäuser Festival

Concert Band

Tannhäuser Festival

Richard Wagner

Performance time
00:09:30

Grade Level
Oberstufe

Publisher
Rundel

Size
A4

Info
Full Score + Parts

Order Number
MVSR2692

Release Date
2013

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Richard Wagner is mainly famous for his great and unique dramatic works, where he developed a comprehensive, holstic style as composer, librettist and stage director. His best-known operas are "Rienzi", "The Flying Dutchman", "Tannhäuser", "Lohengrin”, "The Ring of the Nibelung", "Tristan and Isolde", "The Mastersingers of Nuremberg" and "Parsifal". Wagner liked the sound of wind instruments and often used big brass sections in his works for symphony orchestra. He also composed pieces just for wind orchestra, mostly for open air performances. Yet, in his time this formation was not as refined as today. One cannot compare the instrument technology and ensemble colors of today to those of the past. Thus arises the question: If Wagner had been able to work with today’s wind bands, how would he have composed for this format? Would he have used saxophones? What effects would he have created with percussion? Would he have preferred the tonal color of the wind band to that of the symphony orchestra? Alfred Boesendorfer gives possible answers to those questions in his work "Tannhäuser Festival", which is more than a collection of the most beautiful melodies of various Wagner operas. Rather than just a series of excerpts, he created a logical, unique construction. The original "Tannhäuser" has few musical endings as the passages blend into each other as an "infinite melody", which is a typical element of Wagner’s dramatic works. Boesendorfer devoted himself to the structure of the opera and created self-contained segments, which he combined rationally. To reduce a four-hour opera to a ten-minute concert piece for wind band requires not only deep involvement with the musical material – he also had to create a new dramaturgy to retain the effect and authenticity of the work without overtaxing or boring the audience. In "Tannhäuser Festival", Alfred Boesendorfer interprets Wagner’s music in a completely new way for wind band and skilfully adapts it to the conditions of this versatile formation. Wagner himself might have envisioned these new wind band colors.

Fest Fanfare (Einzug der Gäste – Entry of the Guests)
Gebet der Elisabeth – Elisabeth’s Prayer
Wolfram allein – Wolfram alone
Aus der Ferne – At a Distance
Chor der älteren Pilger – Chorus of Older Pilgrims
Maestoso (Gnadenheil-Motiv) – „Gnadenheil“ Motif

Keywords

atemberaubend

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dynamisch

kontrastreich

groß

Richard Wagner

Bayreuth

sinfonisch

Arrangement / Transcription

Arrival

Classical Music

colorful

dramatic

Fairy Tale / Story / Saga / Legend / Fable

Fanfare

German composers

God

Heroes

Love

Medley

Mystery / Secret

Opera

Orchestral Transcriptions

pray

Prayer

prayerful

RUNDEL YouTube Channel

solemn

tragic

Victory

Woman / Women

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Tannhäuser Festival

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Richard Wagner
Richard Wagner is mainly famous for his great and unique dramatic works, where he developed a comprehensive, holstic style as composer, librettist and stage director. His best-known operas are "Rienzi", "The Flying Dutchman", "Tannhäuser", "Lohengrin”, "The Ring of the Nibelung", "Tristan and Isolde", "The Mastersingers of Nuremberg" and "Parsifal". Wagner liked the sound of wind instruments and often used big brass sections in his works for symphony orchestra. He also composed pieces just for wind orchestra, mostly for open air performances. Yet, in his time this formation was not as refined as today. One cannot compare the instrument technology and ensemble colors of today to those of the past. Thus arises the question: If...

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