BookOfOperas #251 A Book of Operas
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Project Gutenberg EBook of A Book of Operas by Henry Edward Krehbiel the intensity of the overture which presents the drama in nuce may be mentioned the elision of a recurrence to material drawn from his principal theme between the two trumpet-calls, and the abridgment of the...
BookOfOperas #250 A Book of Operas
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Project Gutenberg EBook of A Book of Operas by Henry Edward Krehbiel anticlimax. The thematic material of the "Leonore" overtures Nos. 2 and 3 being practically the same, careless listeners may easily confound one with the other. Nevertheless, the differences between the two works...
BookOfOperas #249 A Book of Operas
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Project Gutenberg EBook of A Book of Operas by Henry Edward Krehbiel unnaturally, the conclusion was jumped at that it was the original overture. That known as "Leonore No. 2" having been withdrawn for revision by Beethoven himself, was not heard of till 1840, when it was performed at...
BookOfOperas #248 A Book of Operas
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Project Gutenberg EBook of A Book of Operas by Henry Edward Krehbiel were a score and parts of an overture in C, not in Beethoven's handwriting, but containing corrections made by him. It bore no date, and on a violin part Beethoven had written first "Overtura, Violino Imo." Later...
BookOfOperas #247 A Book of Operas
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Project Gutenberg EBook of A Book of Operas by Henry Edward Krehbiel undertaken by Beethoven and his friends after the failure. In May, 1807, the German opera at Prague was established and "Fidelio" selected as one of the works to be given. Evidently Beethoven was dissatisfied both...
BookOfOperas #246 A Book of Operas
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Project Gutenberg EBook of A Book of Operas by Henry Edward Krehbiel with the change to "Fidelio" which was made, because of the identity of the story with the "Leonore" operas, of Gaveaux and Paer. Much confusion has existed in the books (and still exists, for that matter) touching...
BookOfOperas #245 A Book of Operas
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Project Gutenberg EBook of A Book of Operas by Henry Edward Krehbiel the populace attracted by his coming, and the prisoners into whose condition he had come to inquire, Don Fernando metes out punishment to the wicked Pizarro, welcomes his old friend back to liberty and honor,...
BookOfOperas #241 A Book of Operas
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Project Gutenberg EBook of A Book of Operas by Henry Edward Krehbiel sound the throbs of the kettle-drums. The parting of the curtain discloses the prisoner chained to his rocky couch. He declaims against the gloom, the silence, the deathly void surrounding him, but comforts himself...
BookOfOperas #221 A Book of Operas
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Project Gutenberg EBook of A Book of Operas by Henry Edward Krehbiel overtures for "Fidelio," but a description of them will best follow comment on the drama and its music. Some two years before the incident which marks the beginning of the action, Don Pizarro, governor of a state...
BookOfOperas #203 A Book of Operas
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Project Gutenberg EBook of A Book of Operas by Henry Edward Krehbiel Don Giovanni himself goes to learn the cause of the disturbance, and Leporello hides under the table. The intrepid Don opens the door. There is a clap of thunder, and there enters the ghost of the Commandant in...
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