Schubert & Schumann Song Arrangements
for Chamber Orchestra
by Franz Schubert
Orchestra - Sheet Music

Orchestra (Study Score)

SKU: HL.48024129

For Chamber Orchestra. Composed by Franz Schubert and Robert Schumann. Arranged by Benjamin Britten. Boosey & Hawkes Scores/Books. Classical. Softcover. 32 pages. Boosey & Hawkes #M060132568. Published by Boosey & Hawkes (HL.48024129).

ISBN 9781784542344. UPC: 888680708894. 7.25x10.25 inches.

Britten's arrangements of Schubert's The Trout (op 32/D550) for small orchestra, and Schumann's Spring Night (op 39 no 12) for chamber orchestra, dating from 1942, are settings of anonymous English translations. The new edition includes the original German words (Schubart, Eichendorff), as many performers and audiences will prefer the songs in the original language. In his preface, Nicholas Clark, Librarian at the Britten-Pears Foundation, speculates on why the songs were set in English and on the possibility that the translator was Peter Pears, commenting that “the English language settings allowed [Britten] to edge away from existing versions of the songs, to assist him in imprinting his own unique mark on both works.” The Trout is scored for 2 clarinets & strings; Spring Night for flute, oboe, 2 clarinets, bassoon, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, trombone, triangle, harp (or piano) and strings.