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Title	Freischütz, Der
Category	Concert/wind/brass band
Subcategory	Overture, arrangement
Instrumentation	Ha (concert/wind band)
Publisher's article no.	KL 1482
Price	135.00 EUR (incl. 10 % Austrian VAT)
Composer	Weber, Carl Maria von
Arranger	Suppan, Armin
Difficulty level	3+
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Programme notes: It was Hans Pfitzner who once wrote that Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826) was born to write the "Freischütz". Weber was first strongly influenced by Mozart, but became with the "Freischütz", first performed 1821 in Berlin, the most important founder of the Romantic movement and one of the leading composers in Germany. He helped to form a new enthusiasm for the German opera among composers and audiences alike. On the one side, there is the hunting life, on the other the rule of demonic powers. These two principal elements are also to hear in the folkloristic melodies and in the colourful orchestration of his music. Especially the sound of the horns and the clarinets became typical for the new romantic orchestra. Weber gave them and all his characters (as Grove writes), "a vivid, peculiarly German colour, so that in 1821 an entire nation was able to recognize an essential part of its nature in these figures and this setting, caught in music of memorable appeal". Quelle/Source: Kliment Der Freischütz is a romantic opera in three acts by Carl Maria von Weber, op. 77. The libretto is by Johann Friedrich Kind. The libretto and the playbill of the premiere indicate Bohemia as the place and time of the action shortly after the end of the Thirty Years' War. The Elbe Sandstone Mountains may have played a role in the composer's concrete imagination; Weber, like other Romantic artists, may have been inspired by the wild rocky landscape of Saxon Switzerland, and the Wolfsschluchtszene (Wolf Gorge Scene) is perhaps conceivable near Rathen. In the summer of 1810, Weber is said to have fallen into Neuburg Abbey's hands with "The Ghost Book". Von Weber and his friend Alexander von Dusch are said to have quickly agreed that the Freischütz story was well suited as a text for an opera. It was not until 1817 that Weber, now in Dresden, took up this idea again with Johann Friedrich Kind. It was then first designed under the title "Die Jägerbraut". After the first works in 1817, the Bauernwalzer and the aria "Durch die Wälder durch die Auen", completed on 22 April 1818, were created. The Freischütz was premiered on 18 June 1821 in the Königliches Schauspielhaus Berlin with triumphal success. Quelle/Source: Wikipedia

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