The première of Daudet's play L'Arlésienne with incidental music by Bizet given at the Théâtre du Vaudeville on 30 September 1872 was a devastating event for both playwright and composer and the production was removed from the repertory after 19 performances. The critic Johannès Weber however was alert to the quality of Bizet's score and suggested that the composer should excerpt and rescore several pieces for the Concerts populaires where 'the lovely music would be better appreciated than at the Vaudeville'. Bizet must have moved rather quickly to follow Weber's suggestion for the première of the first Arlésienne suitetook place only six weeks later at the Concerts populaires on 10 November 1872 and the work in its new abridged form was soon taken up by many other orchestras. Bizet however did not turn to preparing a second suite from L'Arlésienne. Some four years after Bizet's death the success of the first suite may have prompted his original publisher to commission the arrangement of more excerpts from the Arlésienne MS from Bizet's good friend Ernest Guiraud who had earlier written recitatives and put together a ballet for Carmen.
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ISBN 9790004785539. 10 x 12.5 inches.
From Stage Flop to Concert Favorite The story of Alphonse Daudet's drama L'Arlesienne to which Georges Bizet composed several pieces in 1872 focuses on the story of love and suicide and was inspired by true events. The musical drama had flopped at its premiere, but the suite that Bizet arranged shortly afterwards from its stage music enjoys great popularity to this very day. After Bizet's death, his friend Ernest Guiraud put together four more movements of themes and motives by Bizet for a second suite establishing a musical connection to Provence und Arles especially in the outer movements, the Pastorale and the effective Fandarole. With this edition, Breitkopf & Hartel continues its successful collaboration with Eulenburg.
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ISBN 9790004785515. 10 x 12.5 inches.
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ISBN 9790004785522. 10 x 12.5 inches.
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ISBN 9790004785553. 10 x 12.5 inches.
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ISBN 9790004785546. 10 x 12.5 inches.
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ISBN 9790004785508. 10 x 12.5 inches.
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ISBN 9790004780275. 10 x 12.5 inches.
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The world premiere of the play L'Arlesienne with the incidental music by Georges Bizet was a notable failure not only for the playwright Alphonse Daudet, but also for the composer.
ISBN 9790004784693. 10 x 12.5 inches.
The two four-movement orchestral suites, in turn, are still thrilling concert-goers all over the world, ever since their first performances in 1872 and 1880 respectively. In 1998 and 2001, Lesley A. Wright presented the score and orchestral parts of the two repertoire pieces in an Urtext edition prepared for the first time on the basis of all relevant sources. Thus not only will the yellow Urtext angel be gracing the conducting score and orchestral parts, but, next to the standardized large format and new layout of the parts, there are other user-friendly improvements, such as practical page-turns, page-turn aids and intelligent cue notes.
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ISBN 9790004785454. 10 x 12.5 inches.
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ISBN 9790004785447. 10 x 12.5 inches.
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ISBN 9790004785461. 10 x 12.5 inches.
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ISBN 9790004785492. 10 x 12.5 inches.
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ISBN 9790004785485. 10 x 12.5 inches.
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UPC: 888680849788. 5.5x7.5x0.256 inches.
Georges Bizet: L'Arlesienne - Suite No.2 (PH266) (Orchestra).
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Georges Bizet: L'Arlesienne - Suite No.1 (PH265) (Orchestra).
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UPC: 196288190233.
The arrangement for wind orchestra of Georges Bizet's L’Arlésienne Suite No. 2 by Franco Cesarini came about after the composer had long sought a version of the work that would satisfy him. Franco Cesarini remains completely faithful to the original version by revealing and highlighting each section and all the facets ofthe wind orchestra. The premiere of L’Arlésienne Suite No. 2 was held in Lugano on 27 March 2022, during the Spring Concert of the Civica Filarmonica conducted by Franco Cesarini.