Classical Composer: | Verdi, Giuseppe |
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Work: | Luisa Miller: Overture |
Year Composed: | 1849 |
Instrumentation: | 1+1, 2, 2, 2 - 4, 2, 3, 1, timp, perc, str |
Publishers: |
Edwin F. Kalmus Ricordi |
Duration: | 00:06:00 |
Period: | Romantic |
Work Category: | Orchestral |
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Giuseppe Verdi's opera Luisa Miller had its first performance in 1849. It has a libretto by Salvatore Cammarano based on Schiller's play Kabale und Liebe. The action is set in seventeenth century Tyrol, where Luisa Miller is wooed by the huntsman Carlo, in fact the son of Count Walter, lord of the castle, in disguise. Luisa, however, is promised to the Count's servant Wurm, who reveals Carlo's identity to her father, while the Count's son, whose real name is Rodolfo, is to marry his cousin. Luisa is tricked into denying her love for Rodolfo, who eventually finds means and opportunity to poison both her and himself. The overture, a true sinfonia, gives importance to the clarinet in a pastoral movement that sets the opening village scene, where Luisa's birthday is being celebrated.
Writer: Keith Anderson
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