King Lear (Balakirev, Mily)
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Scores
Full Scores
Complete
Front cover, title page, preliminaries
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Table of Contents, colophon, back cover
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B. Barkan
Moscow: Muzyka, 1969; plate 4190
This Soviet edition of the complete Lear music was reprinted by Höflich in 2005.
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Overture
Complete Score
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Coulonnus (26 April 2012)
Leipzig: Zimmermann, n.d. Plate Z. 3835.
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Arrangements and Transcriptions
Complete Work
For Piano 4 hands (Composer)
Complete score
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Morel (19 March 2010)
Color cover
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Morel (19 March 2010)
Leipzig: J.H. Zimmerman, (1904). Plate Z. 3778
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Overture
For Piano 4 hands (Composer)
Complete score
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Feldmahler (1 February 2007)
Leipzig: J.H. Zimmerman, (1904), Plate Z. 3778
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General Information
| Work Title | Музыка к трагедии У. Шекспира "Король Лир" |
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| Alternative Title | Music to Shakespeare's Tragedy "King Lear" |
| Composer | Balakirev, Mily |
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| Movements/Sections | 15 (with one of the movements in two arrangements) |
| Year/Date of Composition | 1858-1861, revised 1902-1905 [2] |
| First Publication | 1904 (piano, 4-hands); 1906 score and parts) -- both publ. by Zimmerman |
| Librettist | William Shakespeare |
| Language | English and Russian (cues in the dialogue) |
| Dedication | В.В. Стасову ("To V.V. Stasov") |
| Piece Style | Romantic |
| Instrumentation | full orchestra (see below, Comments); also arr. by composer for piano, 4-hands |
Misc. Comments
Contents
- Overture
- Act I
- Procession
- Music of the "Procession" (arranged for one orchestra)
- Act II
- Introduction
- Scene 1
- Scene 2
- Scene 4
- Act III
- Introduction
- Act IV
- Introduction
- Scene 6
- Scene 7
- Act V
- Introduction
- Scene 1
- Scene 2
- Scene 3
Publication History
Revised version:
- 1904: composer's arrangement for piano, 4 hands; Zimmerman
- 1906: full score and parts; Zimmerman
- 1969: full score, new engraving; Moscow: Muzyka; plate 4190.
Instrumentation
The cover page to the Muzyka score gives the general instrumentation, and then separate instrumentations for the Scenas (since there are no strings involved, these are possibly on-stage parts?):
- Orchestra
- piccolo, 2 flutes, oboe, english horn, 3 clarinets in B♭ and A, 2 bassoons, 4 horns in F, 2 trumpets in B♭ A E♭ and F, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, triangle, drum, cymbals, bass drum, tamtam, harp, strings
- I Atto
- 2 piccolos, 4 flutes, 4 oboes, 4 clarinets in B♭, 4 bassoons, 4 horns in F, 2 trumpets in F, 3 trombones, tuba, triangle, drum, cymbals, bass drum
- IV Atto
- flute, english horn, 2 clarinets in A, 2 bassoons, harp
- V Atto
- 3 trumpets in B♭ and E♭, 3 horns in E♭, alto flugelhorn in E♭, 2 tenor flugelhorns in B♭, 2 bass flugelhorns, contrabass flugelhorn, triangle, drum, cymbals, bass drum
- V Atto [sic]
- 4 trumpets, 2 horns in E♭, 2 alto flugelhorns in E♭, 2 tenor flugelhorns in B♭, drum
It is not immediately apparent why the fifth Act is listed twice.
