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Guillaume Tell Overture / Gioachino Rossini [notated music]

Title

Guillaume Tell Overture: Study score. [notated music]

Composer

Rossini, Gioachino, 1792-1868

Editor

McAlister, Clark, 1946-

Place of Publication/Creation

Edwardsville, IL

Published/Created

2016

Type of Material

notated music

Genre

notated music

Publisher

Serenissima Music, Inc

Edition

Reprint (Boca Raton: E.F. Kalmus, 2014. Plate A 8984)

Language

Unknown

Media

unmediated

Physical Description

64 pages of music

Carrier

volume

Summary

First heard with the opera's premiere on August 3, 1829 in Paris' Theatre de l'Academie Royale de Musique, Rossini's classic overture has been popular ever since even though the opera itself is only rarely perfomed now. Despite its tremendous popularlty, this overture has not been treated very well by publishers over the decades. Part of the problem stems from the composer's own manuscripts which were the product of rapid composing under pressure from opera houses. Many things which were simply assumed by performers of the era from their first appearance and applied to analogous passages weren't by those of later eras. This new study score is a reissue of the superb performing edition prepared by Clark McAlister (under the pseudonym Howard K. Wolf) originally issued in 2014.

Notes

Study score.

Orchestra
2+1, 2d1, 2, 2 - 4, 2, 3, 0, timp, perc, strs.

ISMN with hyphens: 979-0-58042-097-8

Description based on ISMN data provided by the publisher.

Subjects

Overtures

Operas

ISBN

9781608742073

International Standard Music Number (ISMN)

9790580420978

Last Updated: 03-26-2022