Item #37954 Euryanthe. Grosse romantische Oper in drei Aufzügen Dichtung von Helmine von Chezy geb. Freyinn von Klencke ... Vollständiger Clavierauszug. [Piano-vocal score]. Carl Maria von WEBER.

Euryanthe. Grosse romantische Oper in drei Aufzügen Dichtung von Helmine von Chezy geb. Freyinn von Klencke ... Vollständiger Clavierauszug. [Piano-vocal score]

Braunschweig: Henry Litolff, [ca. 1865].

Oblong octavo. Quarter dark green cloth with marbled boards. 1f. (recto title, verso blank), 2-188 pp.

Binding worn, rubbed, and bumped. Minor browning throughout.

"Designated ... as a ‘grosse romantische Oper’, the work combines the defining attribute of ‘grand opera’ as Weber understood it, the technique of through-composition ... with various attributes of the newer ‘romantic’ opera such as a medieval setting with a supernatural component and a high degree of structural and genre variety ... Although seriously flawed in certain respects, Helmina von Chézy’s libretto nevertheless allowed Weber to realize ideals of organic wholeness ... even more thoroughly than in Der Freischütz ... Slow, chromatic, and seemingly aimless music for divisi muted violins and violas characterizes the ethereal but restless existence of a spirit condemned to eternal wandering; with Emma’s redemption at the end of the opera, however, this music is transformed into a diatonic form ... Where dialogue separates the formal pieces, Weber composed a flexible, expressive type of accompanied recitative that has little in common melodically or harmonically with conventional approaches to recitative." Paul Corneilson et al. in Grove Music Online.

Item #37954

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