Schubert: Overtures
New Schubert Edition V/5
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- Editor: Michael Kube
- Format: Full Score
- Binding: Hardcover
- ISMN:
- Size: 13.0 x 10.2 inches
- Pages: 467
- Urtext / Critical Edition
Description
In addition to his symphonies, Franz Schubert also wrote and handed down to posterity a total of eight finished concert overtures (two of them in two versions) between ca. 1811 and 1819. with the exception of the "Overture in D" (D 4) to the comedy "Der Teufel als Hydraulicus" ("The Devil as Engineer") and the "Overture in D" (D 26), whose original title was cut out of the manuscript, they are all compositions which are associated neither with a drama nor a programme. They thus embody the type of the pure concert overture at an astonishingly early point in the history of music and are also in keeping with this terminologically by virtue of explicitly not having any other appellations whatsoever in the title; the epithet common for two works "in the Italian style" was only added posthumously.
Our volume sees publication for the first time of the "Italian Overture in C" (D 591) in its two authentic versions, this being in contrast to the performance tradition based on a potpourri of the sources. The widely handed-down but corrupted musical course of the "Overture in D" (D 590) has likewise been rectified for the first time.
Overshadowed by his symphonies, Schubert's overtures have hitherto been largely undervalued both in their reception and in musical practice – including the "Overture in E Minor" (D 648), which sees Schubert venturing into radically new spheres of expression to a greater extent than in virtually any other of his works.
Contents:
- Zur Edition
- Vorwort
- Faksimiles
- Ouvertüren:
- Ouvertüre "Der Teufel als Hydraulicus" D Major D 4
- Ouvertüre D Major D 12
- Ouvertüre D Major D 26
- Ouvertüre D Major D 26
- Ouvertüre B-flat Major D 470
- Ouvertüre D Major D 556
- Ouvertüre D Major D 590
- Ouvertüre C Major D 591
- Ouvertüre C Major D 591
- Ouvertüre e Minor D 648
- Anhang: Ouvertüre D Major D 12
- Quellen and Lesarten
- Notenbeispiele
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Schubert: Overtures
