Composition Year | 1876 |
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Genre Categories | Incidental music; Theatrical Works; For voices, mixed chorus, orchestra; |
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Work Title | Musik zu Goethes Faust |
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Alternative. Title | |
Composer | Lassen, Eduard |
Opus/Catalogue NumberOp./Cat. No. | Op.57 |
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No. | IEL 12 |
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp. | 1876 |
First Performance. | 1876-06-05 |
First Publication. | 1877 – Breslau: Julius Hainauer |
Librettist | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) |
Language | German |
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period | Romantic |
Piece Style | Romantic |
Instrumentation | Voices: soli + mixed chorus (SSATTBB) Orchestra: piccolo, 3 flutes, 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons + 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba + timpani, cymbals, tamburino, bells, tam-tam + strings |
some earlier publication in part, I think- published in full piano-reduction in 1877.
(1876 dates from RISM.)
Music was written for a production of the two parts of Goethe's Faust by Otto Devrient (1838–1894).
Instrumentation and further information about parts 1 and 2 can be found at RISM- D-WRha DNT 496a(part I); D-WRha DNT 496b (Part II).
Once (1886 October) conducted by Gustav Mahler (who never conducted Liszt's Faust-symphony or Schumann's Faust-scenes.)