La vestale (Spontini, Gaspare)

Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's 3 acts
First Publication 1808
Genre Categories Lyric tragedies; Theatrical Works; Operas; Lyric operas; For voices, mixed chorus, orchestra; Scores featuring the voice; Scores featuring mixed chorus; Scores featuring the orchestra; For voices and chorus with orchestra; Italian language; French language; German language; For piano (arr); For 1 player (arr); Scores featuring the piano (arr); For guitar, piano (arr); Scores featuring the guitar (arr); For 2 players (arr); For 2 guitars (arr); For piano 4 hands (arr); Scores featuring the piano 4 hands (arr); For guitar (arr)
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Contents

Performances

Sheet Music

Full Scores

Complete

 Preliminaries - Act I (Scenes 1–5)
#219346 - 16.82MB, 153 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 1600×⇩ - Massenetique

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 Act I (Ballet)
#219347 - 6.58MB, 61 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 574×⇩ - Massenetique

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 Act II
#219348 - 14.10MB, 128 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 942×⇩ - Massenetique

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 Act III
#219349 - 18.87MB, 170 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 754×⇩ - Massenetique

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Language French
Publisher. Info. Paris: Mesdemoiselles Erard, n.d.(ca.1808). Plate 700.
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 Complete Score
#283061 - 107.27MB, 858 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 602×⇩ - Fynnjamin

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Fynnjamin (2013/5/31)

Copyist Johann Christoph Beck (1755–1827)
Christian Adolph Gutmacher (d. 1822)
Johann Christoph Zucker (1756–1814)
Language Italian
Publisher. Info. Manuscript, n.d.(ca.1810).
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Misc. Notes Sächsische Landesbibliothek, Dresden (D-Dl): Mus.4308-F-504
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 Complete Score
#283065 - 93.48MB, 872 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 222×⇩ - Fynnjamin

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Fynnjamin (2013/5/31)

Copyist Copyists of Wien
Language German
Translator Ignaz Seyfried (1776–1841), German text
Publisher. Info. Manuscript, 1829.
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Misc. Notes Sächsische Landesbibliothek, Dresden (D-Dl): Mus.4308-F-508
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 Preliminaries - Act I
#164057 - 11.09MB, 225 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 1269×⇩ - Massenetique

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 Act II - Act III
#164058 - 9.69MB, 299 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 987×⇩ - Massenetique

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Language Italian
Publisher. Info. Milan: Ricordi, n.d.[1887]. Plate 51632.
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Overture

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#424045 - 9.03MB, 27 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 85×⇩ - Dandeutsch

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Dandeutsch (2016/5/23)

Publisher. Info. Paris: Mesdemoiselles Erard, n.d.(ca.1808). Plate 700.
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Misc. Notes This score includes measure numbers.
Part of the research project Romantic Overtures, 1820-1850
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 Complete Score
#986260 - 0.54MB, 33 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - !N/!N/!N - 20×⇩ - VictorD

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Parts

Overture

 Piccolo/Flute 1/2
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⇒ 15 more: Oboe 1/2 • Clarinet 1/2 (C) • Clarinet 1/2 (B♭, transposed) • Bassoon 1/2 • Horn 1/2/3/4 (original keys) • Horn 1/2/3/4 (F, transposed) • Trumpet 1/2 (D) • Trumpet 1/2 • Trombone 1/2/3 (tenor, bass clefs) • Timpani • Violins I • Violins II • Violas • Cellos • Basses

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 Clarinet 1/2 (C)
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 Clarinet 1/2 (B♭, transposed)
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 Bassoon 1/2
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 Horn 1/2/3/4 (original keys)
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 Horn 1/2/3/4 (F, transposed)
#397231 - 0.13MB, 4 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - !N/!N/!N - 194×⇩ - Meyerbeer

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 Trumpet 1/2 (D)
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 Trumpet 1/2
#397233 - 0.06MB, 2 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - !N/!N/!N - 159×⇩ - Meyerbeer

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 Trombone 1/2/3 (tenor, bass clefs)
#397234 - 0.07MB, 3 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - !N/!N/!N - 208×⇩ - Meyerbeer

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 Timpani
#397235 - 0.06MB, 2 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - !N/!N/!N - 176×⇩ - Meyerbeer

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 Violins I
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 Violins II
#397221 - 0.15MB, 4 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - !N/!N/!N - 153×⇩ - Meyerbeer

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 Violas
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 Cellos
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 Basses
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Editor William D. Halsey
Publisher. Info. Meyerbeer Associates
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Misc. Notes These parts were prepared with love and respect for G. Spontini. There is a rather sad plaque that one can see in Maiolati Spontini, a town in the hills above Ancona, Spontini's hometown where he retired after his opera writing career was over, to do "good works" with his French wife Celeste in the Catholic tradition. It says, even if I didn't write the Barber of Seville, I did good works. Well even if he didn't write the Barber of Seville it was he, not Rossini, Auber or Meyerbeer who created Grand Opera! And if he tended to write the same opera more than once, as so many do -- he wrote four grand operas, Agnese his last being perhaps the most stupendous -- it was not due to a lack of imagination or craft but an excess of passion.
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Vocal Scores

 Complete Score
#286564 - 31.84MB, 292 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 2183×⇩ - Fynnjamin

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Fynnjamin (2013/7/1)

Publisher. Info. Paris: Mesdemoiselles Erard, n.d.(ca.1808). Plate E. 1001.
Reprinted Paris: Richault, n.d. Plate (E. 1001).
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 Complete Score (mono)
#551312 - 26.63MB, 188 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 113×⇩ - Carolus

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 Segment 1
#446526 - 124.56MB, 100 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 86×⇩ - IS

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 Segment 2
#446527 - 104.58MB, 88 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 51×⇩ - IS

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Arranger Friedrich Schneider (1786–1853)
Language German / French
Publisher. Info. Leipzig: C.F. Peters, n.d.(ca.1810). Plate 945, 947, 956.
Reprinted Moscow: Elibron Classics, n.d.
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 Act I
#851854 - 594.42MB, 97 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 27×⇩ - Feduol

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 Act II
#851852 - 475.25MB, 74 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 19×⇩ - Feduol

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 Act III
#851853 - 534.42MB, 78 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 11×⇩ - Feduol

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Language French / German
Publisher. Info. Berlin: Kunst- und Industrie-Comptoir, n.d.(ca.1828). Plate 104, 138, 200.
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 Preliminaries & Act I
#604330 - 53.14MB, 121 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 79×⇩ - Stefano

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 Act II
#604331 - 37.45MB, 76 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 65×⇩ - Stefano

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 Act III
#604332 - 44.99MB, 88 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 41×⇩ - Stefano

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Language Italian
Translator Giovanni Schmidt (ca.1775–ca.after 1839)
Publisher. Info. Milan: Ricordi, n.d. [1875]. Plate 44685-86.
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O des infortunés, déesse tutélaire / O Nume tutelar (Act II No.13)

 O des infortunés, déesse tutélaire
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Morel (2020/5/2)

Editor Mme Auguez de Montalant
Publisher. Info. Album Musica, No.90
Paris: Pierre Lafitte, 1910.
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 O Nume tutelar
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Arrangements and Transcriptions

Complete

For Piano (Schubert)

 Complete Score
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Arranger Franz Ludwig Schubert (1804–1868)
Publisher. Info. Leipzig: Friedlein & Hirsch, n.d.(ca.1830). Plate 29.
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Overture

For Guitar and Piano (Derwort)

 Complete Parts
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Arranger Georg Heinrich Derwort (1789–1835)
Publisher. Info. London: Wessel & Stodart, n.d. Plate W. & S. 144.
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For 2 Guitars (Giuliani)

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Arranger Mauro Giuliani (1781–1828)
Publisher. Info. Vienna: Artaria, n.d.[1811]. Plate 2214.
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For Piano 4 hands (Ulrich)

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Morel (2011/11/7)

Arranger Hugo Ulrich (1827–1872)
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 Complete Score
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LinBoHe (2022/4/1)

Arranger Hugo Ulrich (1827–1872)
Publisher. Info. Leipzig: C.F. Peters, n.d. Plate 7141.
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For Piano 4 hands

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Publisher. Info. New York: Schirmer, 1895. Plate 11879.
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For Piano (Ulrich)

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Arranger Hugo Ulrich (1827-1872)
Publisher. Info. Ouverturen-Album. Sammlung der beliebtesten Ouverturen für Pianoforte solo.
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For Piano

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Publisher. Info. Répertoire der besten Opern
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Marcia trionfale (Act I)

For Guitar (Giuliani)

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Arranger Mauro Giuliani (1781–1828)
Publisher. Info. Berlin: Concha et Comp, n.d.[1820]. Plate 432.
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Librettos

French

 Complete Libretto
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General Information

Work Title La vestale
Alternative. Title Tragédie lyrique en trois actes
Name Translations La vestal; La Vestale; ヴェスタの巫女; Westalka; Vestalen; Весталка; Վեստալուհի; A szűz; Веста хĕрĕ; Vestal Bakiresi; Η Εστιάς; العذراء فيستال (سبونتيني)
Authorities WorldCat; Wikipedia; VIAF: 219028204; LCCN: no95041035; GND: 300331339; SUDOC: 052637549; BNF: 13919550f
Composer Spontini, Gaspare
Internal Reference NumberInternal Ref. No. IGS 11
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's 3 acts:
  • Act I
  • Act II
8. Toi che j'emplore / Tu che invoco
13, O des infortunés déesse tutélaire / O Nume tutelar
  • Act III
First Performance. 1807-12-15 in Paris: Opéra
First Publication. 1808
Librettist Étienne de Jouy (1764–1846)
Language French
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period Romantic
Piece Style Classical
Instrumentation voices, mixed chorus, orchestra
InstrDetail
Roles
Licinius, général romain (tenor)
Cinna, chef de légion (tenor)
Le Souverain Pontife (bass)
Julia, jeune vestale (soprano)
La Grande Vestale (mezzo-soprano)
Le Chef des Aruspices (bass)
Un Consul

Mixed Chorus (SATB)
Orchestra

2 flutes (both also piccolo), 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons
4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, timpani, strings
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