Christian Philipp Graf Clam-Gallas (1748-1805) was
owner of a pompous court in Prague and maintained an
own orchestra. For a wind ensemble of this orchestra
(clarinet and 3 basset horns) 26 arrangements of well
known music have been prepared. They are preserved in
the National Museum Prague (Sign. XLll A 128).The title
of these arrangements is ‘Palmira’.Antonio
Salieri‘s opera „Palmira, Regina di Persia“ has
been performed first 1779 in Vienna. Only the first
five pieces stem from th...(+)
Christian Philipp Graf Clam-Gallas (1748-1805) was
owner of a pompous court in Prague and maintained an
own orchestra. For a wind ensemble of this orchestra
(clarinet and 3 basset horns) 26 arrangements of well
known music have been prepared. They are preserved in
the National Museum Prague (Sign. XLll A 128).The title
of these arrangements is ‘Palmira’.Antonio
Salieri‘s opera „Palmira, Regina di Persia“ has
been performed first 1779 in Vienna. Only the first
five pieces stem from this opera.(Nr. 1: 1st act no. 5
Marcia; Nr. 2: 2nd act no. 28 voice’s quartet; Nr.
3: 1st act no. 21 second part; Nr. 4: 1st act no. 13/14
duet Palmira Alcidoro; Nr. 5: 1st act no. 21 first part
). Nr. 6 (Lied des Waldmädchens or La Russe) is from
the ballet „Das Waldmädchen“ by Paul Wranitzky,
no. 7 und 8 are the famous register aria from
Mozart’s Don Giovanni, no. 12 is from the
heroic-comical opera „Der Spiegel von Arkadien“ by
Franz Xaver Süßmayr, the march no. 14 is from the
opera (first performed in 1796in Venezia) „Gli Orazi
ei Curiazi“ by Domenico Cimarosa and
no. 26 is a composition by François Joseph Naderman,
a French harp virtuoso and composer. The remaining
pieces could not be identified until now, but they are
not from the opera Palmira.
