Overture: "La Forza del Destino" (arr Suzuki)

Giuseppe Verdi

Giuseppe Verdi (trans. Takayoshi Suzuki)

General Info

Year: 1862 / 2017
Duration: c. 8:25
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Original Medium: Orchestra
Publisher: TRN Music Publishing
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $100.00   |   Score Only (print) - $14.00

Instrumentation

Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
Bassoon I-II
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Saxophone
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Cornet I-II
B-flat Trumpet I-II
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Harp or Keyboard
Timpani
Percussion, including:

• Bass Drum
• Crash Cymbals
• Marimba
• Xylophone

Violincello

Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

Giuseppe Verdi was a visionary and innovative composer of Italian opera. Works such as Rigoletto, La Traviata, Aida, Otello and Falstaff are all commonly performed and hailed as the finest examples of the genre. In his later life, Verdi was also a politician and served in the local parliament. He worked to establish a hospital in Villanova sull’Arda, as well as a home for retired musicians in Milan.

La Forza del Destino, Verdi’s 22nd opera, was completed in 1862 and premiered in St. Petersburg on November 10 of that year. The overture was not heard until Feb. 27, 1869, when the opera was revised and presented at La Scala in Milan.

- Program Note by TSgts. David Balandrin and Ricky Parrell

La Forza del Destino originally began with a prelude leading without a break into the first act of the opera. For the revision, Verdi lengthened and strengthened the prelude, making it into an overture coming to a full close before the curtain rises. Built from melodic, harmonic and rhythmic matters dealt with in the opera itself, the overture quotes and combines several of the most striking melodies as well as the ominous, opening, three-chord motif and the rapid, repeated, ascending accompaniment-figure associated in the opera with tragic destiny.

- Program Note from Program Notes for Band

Media

• Audio: Reference recording. Ensemble and conductor unknown

State Ratings

• Alabama: Class AA

Performances

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• Austin (Tx.) Civic Wind Ensemble (Robert Laguna, conductor) - 29 October 2023

Works for Winds by This Composer

• Adagio (arr. Hautvast)
• Ah! Fors e lui - Sempre Libera from "La Traviata" (arr. Barrow) (1973)
• Aïda: Prelude (arr. Hautvast) (/2010)
• Anvil Chorus (tr. McAlister and Graham) (1853/2008)
• Ave Maria volgarizzata da Dante (arr. Hartman) (1880/2019)
• Ballabili (arr. Van der Beek) (1847/1865/1997)
• Ballet Music from "Otello" (tr. Patterson) (1887/2003)
• Bolero from "The Sicilian Vespers" (tr. Sousa) (1855)
• Di Quella pira (arr. Hanna) (1853/)
• Dies Irae (arr. Bocook) (1874/1998)
• Excerpts from "Manzoni Requiem" (arr. Mollenhauer) (1869/1874/1965)
• Fanfare from "Requiem" (arr. Decker) (1874/1989)
• Il Balen del Suo Sorriso from "Il Trovatore" (arr. Brittain) (2009)
• La Battaglia di Legnano (arr. Kalischnig) (1986)
• La Forza del Destino (tr. Cesarini) (1862/1995)
• March from "Aida" (arr. Seredy) (1871/1898/1964)
• Nabucco (tr. Saurer) (1841/2004)
• Nabucco Overture (tr. Cailliet) (1842/1959)
• Overture to "Joan of Arc" (arr. Rollinson) (1845/1902)
• Overture to "La Forza del Destino" (arr. Lake and Hunt) (1862/1946)
• Overture to "La Forza del Destino" (arr. Odom) (1862)
• Overture to "La Forza del Destino" (arr. Patterson) (1862/2012)
• Overture to "La Forza del Destino" (arr. Rogers) (1862/1980)
• Overture: "La Forza del Destino" (arr. Suzuki) (1862/2017)
• Overture to "Luisa Miller" (arr. Pruyn) (1849/1988)
• Overture to "Nabucco" (tr. Cailliet) (1841/1959)
• Overture to "Nabucco" (arr. Neumann) (1841/2020)
• Overture to "Nabucco" (arr. Rhea) (1841)
• Prelude to Act I of "La Traviata" (ed. Falcone) (1853/1966)
• Requiem (tr. Patterson) (1874/2005)
• Rigoletto-Fantasie (arr. Goldhammer) (1851/2002)
• Triumphal March from "Aida" (arr. Evžen Zámečník) (1871)
• Triumphal March from "Aida" (arr. McAlister; ed. Reed) (1871)
• Triumphal March from "Aida" (arr. Richard) (1871/2012)

Resources

• "New Music Reviews." The Instrumentalist, 72/8 (March 2018), p. 53.
• Perusal score
• Smith, Norman E. (2002). Program Notes for Band. Chicago: GIA Publications, pp. 610.
• Verdi, G.; Suzuki, T. (2017). Overture: "La Forza del Destino" [score]. TRN Music: [Alto, N.M.].