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Tragic Overture, Ouverture to the opera Estrella de Soria Score - Franz Berwald

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Berwald Tragic Overture, Ouverture to the opera Estrella de Soria Score

Componist(en):

Franz Berwald

Uitgever('s):

Hoflich Musikprodukt

Uitgavenummer:

4103

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Franz Adolf Berwald – Tragic Overture

(b. Stockholm, 23 July 1796 – d. Stockholm, 3 April 1868)

Overture to Estrella de Soria

First public performance April 9, 1862 in Stockholm
First published Hirschs Forlag Stockholm (n.d.)
Duration: 8 minutes

Franz Berwald is known today as Sweden’s most outstanding composer of the nineteenth century. But in his day he consistently failed to secure a position in his own country, until he was appointed professor of composition at the Swedish Academy, a year before his death. Like some other members of his family he became a violinist and did achieve success both as a soloist and orchestra player. But throughout his life he also pursued parallel careers that would subsidize his desire to compose. He was active in the medical field, operating an orthopedic clinic for some years, and later managed a glass works and a sawmill. As a composer he was largely self-taught, although he did study counterpoint in Germany at one point.

Many of Berwald’s works were poorly received in his own country, often by critics who labeled him an amateur and accused him of not knowing even the basic craft of composition, or through accusations that he ignored or tampered with the traditional forms in a careless or haphazard fashion. From our vantage point today it is difficult to see how these criticisms could hold water, and it is sometimes suggested that his troubles may have been caused by personal or political issues. The compositional methods in question were often forward-looking, but they were hardly radical, consisting of techniques such as re-ordering the themes or using “wrong” keys in a sonata form movement, or embedding the scherzo of a symphony in the middle of the slow movement. Even in his lifetime these became commonplace among European composers. His reputation was certainly much better in other countries, and indeed one of his strongest advocates, even after his death, was the Norwegian composer and conductor Ludvig Norman.

Berwald left a considerable quantity of music, including much instrumental and chamber music, four symphonies and other works, as well as operas. Estrella de Soria was actually his tenth attempt at an opera, and was originally composed in the early 1840s. It had at least one private performance, according to Berwald’s widow, but was not given in a public performance until 1862. The story takes place in fifteenth-century Castile, and is a tragedy involving both political and love intrigues, including a kidnapped Moorish princess. Following this production, the opera was not done again in the composer’s lifetime, but the overture became a staple of the orchestral repertoire and continues to be popular today.

The overture begins with a short Largo introduction in D minor, followed by an Allegro assai in cut time. The mood is intense, serious, and agitated. A second lyrical theme in the key of A occurs; following this Berwald begins to develop some of the ideas, but almost immediately returns to the key of D minor and the previous material, which in formal terms is the recapitulation. He then follows this with a restatement of the second theme, this time in the tonic major (D), followed again by the agitated D minor music. A coda begins, but the music suddenly stops, and the violent D minor material is replaced by a Molto Andante in F Major with a clarinet solo. The overture ends serenely in the key of F as the first scene of the opera opens. This overture provides a good illustration of how the composer can use unorthodox or even “wrong” formulas but still create a work of tremendous vitality, one which in this case has justifiably retained its place as a concert favorite.

The overture is sometimes played nowadays in a version by Swedish composer Moses Pergament, with a concert ending, which was commissioned by conductor Fritz Busch and published by Gehrmans (Stockholm) in 1949. The piece is identical, and appears to use the same plates as the original, except for the final two pages, where Pergament replaces the F Major Molto Andante (17 measures) with a continuation of the Allegro assai for 18 measures, ending decisively in the tonic D minor.

M.J. Sunny Zank, Professor of Music, Ohio Northern University, 2012

Score No., 4103 

Edition, Repertoire Explorer 

Genre, Orchestra 

Size, 210 x 297 mm 

Printing, Reprint 

Pages, 44 

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Componist(en):

Franz Berwald

Uitgever('s):

Hoflich Musikprodukt

Uitgavenummer:

4103

ISBN:

Volgnummer:

934174

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