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Title	Intermezzo und Barkarole (aus 'Hoffmann's Erzählungen)
Category	Concert/wind/brass band
Subcategory	Concert music, arrangement
Instrumentation	Ha (concert/wind band)
Publisher's article no.	KL 1664
Price	59.00 EUR (incl. 10 % Austrian VAT)
Composer	Offenbach, Jacques
Arranger	Kliment, Hans
Difficulty level	1+
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Programme notes: The Tales of Hoffmann (French: Les contes d'Hoffmann) is an opéra fantastique by Jacques Offenbach. The French libretto was written by Jules Barbier, based on three short stories by E. T. A. Hoffmann, who is the protagonist of the story. It was Offenbach's final work; he died in October 1880, four months before the premiere. "Les contes d'Hoffmann" has no overture in the strict sense. The opera begins with a few bars of introductory music, the theme of which is not repeated throughout the opera, and leads directly to the first act, in which the muse informs the listener that she intends to distract Hoffmann from his unhappy love life and return him to literature. This explanatory first act is followed by the three middle acts with Hoffmann's narratives independent of each other. The red thread here is the compositional trick of letting the protagonists of the narratives each sing by the same interpreters (the four lovers of Hoffmann, the four adversaries and the four servants). The opera concludes with the fifth act, which follows the first. Here Hoffmann reflects on art and surrenders to the muse. Belle nuit, ô nuit d'amour (often referred to as the "Barcarolle") is a piece from The Tales of Hoffmann, Jacques Offenbach's final opera. A duet for soprano and mezzo-soprano, it is considered the most famous barcarolle ever written and described in the "Grove Book of Operas" as "one of the world's most popular melodies." The text, concerning the beauty of the night and of love, is by Jules Barbier. Quelle/Source: Wikipedia

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