Les Nuits d'été: Complete Song Cycle in Full Score and Vocal Score (Dover Orchestral Music Scores) - Softcover

Berlioz, Hector

 
9780486426655: Les Nuits d'été: Complete Song Cycle in Full Score and Vocal Score (Dover Orchestral Music Scores)

Synopsis

Among Berlioz's best-loved works. Settings of "Summer Nights," poems by Théophile Gautier, with French, English, and German singing texts. This Dover edition includes the corresponding vocal score (voice and piano), which can serve as a rehearsal addendum. Contents: 1. "Villanelle" (popular street song); 2. "Le spectre de la rose" (The wraith of a rose); 3. "Sur les lagunes" (On the lagoons); 4. "Absence"; 5. "Au cimetière" (In the graveyard); and "L'île inconnue" (The unknown island). New Dover compilation of the orchestral score originally published by Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig, 1900-07, together with the corresponding vocal score, originally published by Costallat & Cie, Paris [ca. 1834]. Instrumentation.

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About the Author

French composer Hector Berlioz (1803–69) exercised a significant impact on the development of Romanticism. His works influenced those of Wagner, Liszt, Strauss, and Mahler.

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