Folksong and Hunters' Chorus -from
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Product ID: LW1 CMA0142
By Carl Maria Von Weber
Publisher:
LudwigMasters
Arranger:
McAllister
Series:
ConcertMasters
Genre:
Classical
Line Up:
Symphony Orchestra
Duration:
5:15
Level: 3
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Der Freischuetz has come to be considered the first of the Romantic operas. The influence of folk music is obvious, as is the composer's nationalistic fervor. Bright, melodic, and vibrant, it is as fresh today as when it was written.
Instrumentation
1 Full Score
1 PICCOLO
1 FLUTE 1
1 FLUTE 2
1 OBOE 1
1 OBOE 2
1 Bb CLARINET 1
1 Bb CLARINET 2
1 1BASSOON 1
1 BASSOON 2
1 F HORN 1
1 F HORN 2
8 VIOLIN 1
8 VIOLIN 2
5 VIOLA
5 CELLO
5 STRING BASS
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Composer
Carl Maria Von Weber (1786-1826)
Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber (18–19 November 1786 – 4–5 June 1826) was a German composer, conductor, pianist, guitarist and critic, one of the first significant composers of the Romantic school.
Weber's operas Der Freischütz, Euryanthe and Oberon greatly influenced the development of the Romantic opera in Germany. His compositions for the clarinet, which include two concertos, a concertino, a quintet and a duo concertante, are regularly performed today.
His operas influenced the work of later opera composers, especially in Germany, such as Heinrich Marschner, Giacomo Meyerbeer and Richard Wagner, as well as several nationalist 19th-century composers such as Mikhail Glinka. Homage has been paid Weber by 20th century composers such as Debussy, Stravinsky, Gustav Mahler (who completed Weber's unfinished comic opera Die drei Pintos and made revisions of Euryanthe and Oberon) and Paul Hindemith (composer of the popular Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes of Weber).
Weber also wrote music journalism and was interested in folksong, and learned lithography to engrave his own works.
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