Luigi Cherubini
Médée - Ouverture
Short instrumentation: 2 2 2 2 - 4 0 0 0, timp, str
Duration: 7'
Bearbeitet von: Andreas Gies
Instrumentation details:
1st flute
2nd flute
1st oboe
2nd oboe
1st clarinet in C
2nd clarinet in C
1st bassoon
2nd bassoon
1st horn
1st horn in F
2nd horn in F
2nd horn
timpani
violin I (8 players)
violin II (6 players)
viola (4 players)
violoncello (4 players)
double bass (2 players)
Médée - Ouverture
Sample pages
Work introduction
This critical edition aims to spread, as much as possible, the music of Luigi Cherubini, one of the most famous composers of his times, admired by Beethoven and Schumann, and now almost forgotten.
In his enormous production the opera Medea, form which this piece comes, stands as a paradigm of a new dramatization of a tragic libretto.
Its ominous opening and almost obsessive rhythmical gestures stick immediately into the listener's mind.
Now this Ouverture can be studied and performed without fearing not to read the musical text as conceived by the composer.