Instrumentation: 2.2.2.2 – 4.2.2.0 – timp – str

Urtext virgin territory: the Fidelio Overture

To this day, the two major Fidelio overtures are still performed from music texts that go back to the imprecise and corrupted first editions of the parts. In the meantime, however, the state of the sources for both works has significantly improved through many new findings.

For the new Fidelio Overture, which was written at lightning speed in 1814 for the reprise of the opera (and was performed...