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Eine Faust-Ouvertüre Alt ernative. Title Composer Wagner, Richard: Opus/Catalogue Number Op./Cat. No. WWV 59 I-Catalogue Number I-Cat. No. IRW 12 Key D minor Movements/Sections Mov'ts/Sec's: 1 Year/Date of Composition Y/D of Comp. First Pub lication. Composer Time Period Comp. Period: Romantic: Piece Style Romantic: InstrumentationComposer: Wagner, Richard.

Many composers in the nineteenth century felt the magnetic pull of Goethe’s seminal play Faust. Richard Wagner was among them. He started an imposing symphony on the subject of fate and fortitude in Paris in But the symphony wasn’t to be, and instead became a powerful concert overture that tells of Faust’s longing and despair.

This thoughtfully planned Goethe-related concert began with a revealing account of Wagner’s A Faust Overture, dark, pensive, fevered, such contrasts presented with conviction by the London Philharmonic and Vladimir Jurowski who gave the piece slow-burn turbulence, fastidious detailing, and introducing the Schumannesque refrain with optimism.

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For the first time, he referred to the work as A Faust Overture. Wagner himself conducted the premiere in Zurich on 23 January In February he sent the score to Liszt with the comment: “Herewith you receive my remodelled ‘Faust’ overture, which will appear very insignificant to you by the side of your ‘Faust’ symphony.

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Teresa Stich-Randall, Richard Lewis, Norma Procter, Kim Borg, Franz Schubert, Richard Wagner, Ludwig van Beethoven, Jascha Horenstein, BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra - Beethoven: Missa Solemnis / Schubert: Symphony No. 8 / Wagner: A Faust Overture - anterpauvetheter.awchanjournplacfozahepsocarpanonssin.co Music5/5(3).