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Title	Aufforderung zum Tanz (Invitation to the Dance)
Category	Concert/wind/brass band
Subcategory	Concert music, arrangement
Instrumentation	Ha (concert/wind band)
Format	PrtStm (full score and parts)
Publisher's article no.	KL 1658
Year of publication	1996
Price	149.00 EUR (incl. 10 % Austrian VAT)
Composer	Weber, Carl Maria von
Arranger	Baumann, Gerhard
Difficulty level	4
Duration	10:00
Additional info/contents	One of the most famous works by the German composer. Gerhard Baumann's arrangement is in no way inferior to the original. Surely a highlight for your classical concert programmes.
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Programme notes: Written in 1819, two years before the premiere of Freischütz, this Rondo brillante for piano, op.65, entitled Aufforderung zum Tanze (Invitation to the Dance) is sometimes referred to as Carl Maria von Weber's best-known work. The "sparkling melodic arc" is probably familiar to everyone, - but many will not immediately associate the piece with Weber, with a composer who is generally considered to have devoted himself exclusively to "serious" music. With this piano piece, Weber actually wrote light music, a piece "for ball and salon", intended for the bourgeois circles practising domestic music. In 1821, the piano edition of Aufforderung zum Tanze was published in Berlin. Such a well-known piece of music called for an arrangement for other instruments. Hector Berlioz, who greatly admired Weber and is considered a pioneer of neo-Romantic music, created the orchestral version in 1841, orchestrating the piano original. Berlioz himself conducted this orchestral version several times, for example on the occasion of a tour through Germany. The first performance of the orchestral version took place on 7 June 1841 on the stage of the "Academie royale de musique" in Paris as ballet music for the opera Der Freischütz. At that time, ballet interludes from Oberon and Preziosa were also performed for the first time. Paris loved extensive dance interludes in opera performances and so there are also Parisian versions of Verdi, for example, in which he enriched his operas with ballet music. Quelle/Source: Kliment

	Format	EUR
	Aufforderung zum Tanz (Invitation to the Dance) (concert/wind band), full score and parts	149.00
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