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Title	Requiem Aeternam (aus der Oper 'Edgar')
Category	Concert/wind/brass band
Subcategory	Music from opera, ballet
Instrumentation	Ha (concert/wind band)
Format	PrtStm (full score and parts)
Publisher's article no.	click here
Series title	Classics Series
EAN (GTIN)	click here
ISMN	click here
Year of publication	2009
Composer	Puccini, Giacomo
Arranger	De Meij, Johan
Difficulty level	4
Duration	3:40
Additional info/contents	Giacomo Puccini was commissioned to write a second opera after the resounding success of Le Villi. The original four-act opera, the grand opera Edgar, written to a libretto by Ferdinando Fontana, received only moderate applause at its premiere at La Scala in Milan in 1899 - there were initially only three performances. Of all the planned performances in the following two years, only one took place, namely in Puccini's hometown of Lucca. The work was well received there. Nevertheless, the composer decided to make drastic changes to "Edgar": the most far-reaching was to reduce the opera to three acts again. He also changed some arias, characters and instrumental parts. In its revised form, the opera was even worse received than before. Material from the deleted fourth act was later used in "Tosca" (the duet "Amoro so' per te"), but Puccini never felt it necessary to defend "Edgar" - which he did very well with other less successful operas, such as "La Rondine" and "Suor Angelica". On a piano reduction for his friend Sybil Seligman, he even verbalised the title to "E Dio ti Guarda da quest'opera" (literally: 'may God protect you from this opera'). This did not stop Arturo Toscanini from playing the third act RequiemĈternam for the composer's funeral in the cathedral in Milan on 3 December 1924. The third act requiem is played to the long funeral procession of the supposed corpse of Edgar - the confused young man wavering between the love of the virtuous Fidelia and the exotic Tigrana. The crowd hails him as a hero, but a monk claims Edgar betrayed his country for a few pieces of gold. When the soldiers go to desecrate the corpse, they discover that the coffin is empty. The monk himself reveals himself to be Edgar. He wants to flee with his faithful Fidelia, but the vengeful Tigrana attacks him and stabs Fidelia. Edgar bends over the corpse of his beloved in pain, while Tigrana is arrested and the crowd sinks into prayer. Prt PicFlt Flt 1,2 Ob 1,2 EHrn Fag 1,2 EsClr Clr 1,2,3 BClr ASax 1,2 TSax BSax Trp 1,2,3 Hrn in F 1,2,3,4 Trb in C 1,2,3 Brt/Euph in C Tub in C KB TamTam MCym SuCym BD
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	Requiem Aeternam (aus der Oper 'Edgar') (concert/wind band), full score and parts
	Requiem Aeternam (aus der Oper 'Edgar') (concert/wind band), full score
	Puccini Legacy, The: Wind Orchestra Transcriptions by Johan de Meij, audio CD click here	24.47

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