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Auber-Wagner: Zanetta Suite No. 1 (arr. for flute & string trio)

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Schott  |  SKU: ED23972  |  Barcode: 9790001219341
  • Composer: Daniel Auber (1782-1871)
  • Arranger: Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
  • Editor: Egon Voss
  • Format: Score & Set of Parts - Format guide
  • Instrumentation (this edition): Flute, String Trio (Violin, Viola, Cello)
  • Originally for: Opera
  • Work: Suite No. 1 from Zanetta (Jouer avec le feu) (1840)
  • ISMN: 9790001219341
  • Size: 9.1 x 11.8 inches

Description

When Richard Wagner arrived in Paris in September 1839, he had grand plans: Paris was to help him achieve his international breakthrough as an opera composer. in his luggage he carried his comic opera Das Liebesverbot oder: Die Novize von Palermo and the as yet unfinished score of his tragic opera Rienzi, der Letzte der Tribunen. He hoped to stage them at one of the Parisian opera houses, or even better - to be commissioned to compose a new opera. But these hopes proved all too soon to be illusions. Even the support of Giacomo Meyerbeer, who wielded great influence in Parisian musical life, was not enough. Wagner therefore found himself forced to earn a living by other means.

Wagner arranged the operas La Favorite by Gaetano Donizetti, Le Guitarrero and La Reine de Chypre by Fromenthal Halévy, as well as Zanetta ou Jouer avec le feu by Daniel François Esprit Auber, and the original two-hand version of Grande fantaisie sur la Romanesca, Op. 111, by Henri Herz for piano four hands. The opera arrangements consisted, as was customary at the time, of piano reductions for two and four hands and those without text, of individual pieces, known as 'Morceaux détachés', as well as versions for quartet (string quartet or flute and string trio), for two violins and for cornet à pistons. Some of these, such as the latter, have not survived. Nor is it definitively established how many arrangements Wagner actually produced. Some appeared in print without the arranger's name being mentioned, and furthermore, a certain Paul Wagner was also working in Paris at the time alongside Richard Wagner, so that the name Wagner on the title page alone is not sufficient to attribute an arrangement to Richard Wagner. However, the arrangements presented here - the musical text based on the complete edition - were certainly produced by Richard Wagner, as relevant documents attest.