Chorus (with soloists)
and piano (solos: S. A.
7T. Bar. 4B - choir:
SAATTBB - picc.2.2.2.2 -
4.2.3.0 - timp.perc(2) -
hp - str)
SKU:
BR.EB-2066
Comic
Opera in 2 Acts.
Composed by Peter
Cornelius. Edited by Max
Hasse. Arranged by
Waldemar von (KA)
Baussnern. Choir;
Softbound. Edition
Breitkopf. Opera; Music
theatre; Romantic.
Piano/Vocal Score. 240
pages. Breitkopf and
Haertel #EB 2066.
Published by Breitkopf
and Haertel (BR.EB-2066).
ISBN 9790004160770.
7.5 x 10.5
inches.
Text by the
composer Translation:
engl. (M. E. Browne)
Place: Bagdad Characters:
Der Kalif (baritone) -
Baba Mustapha, ein Kadi
(tenor) - Margiana, seine
Tochter (soprano) -
Bostana, eine Verwandte
(alto) - Nureddin (tenor)
- Abul Hassan Ali Ebn
Bekar, Barbier (bass) -
1. Muezzin (bass) - 2.
Muezzin (tenor) - 3.
Muezzin (tenor) - Ein
Sklave (tenor) - Vier
Bewaffnete (2 Tenore, 2
Basse) Corneliuss opera
got off to a bad start,
to say the least: the
scandal provoked at the
first performance in
Weimar in 1858 led to
protests and ultimately
to the resignation of
Franz Liszt as court
opera director. It was
not until 1904 that the
opera was played again in
that city and proved that
the scandal had not been
caused by the work but by
Liszts aesthetic views.
The score was long
considered as the ideal
example of a musical
comedy with a far too
complicated plot. Today,
however, many prominent
commentators beg to
differ: This is one of
the sunniest scores ever
written. Music in the
spirit of Mozart and
Mendelssohn: a highly
delicate mixture of
classical formal rigor
and romantic irony,
heightened with just a
touch of exquisite
sensuality that has just
wafted in from the
Orient. It is practically
incomprehensible how
Cornelius could have been
regarded as a composer of
the Wagner school for
practically a century.
With its intricate fusing
of comedy, lyricism and
sentimentality, it is
precisely the opera that
Schubert, Schumann,
E.T.A. Hoffmann and
Mendelssohn were unable
to write. (Hans
Zender).
