Don Giovanni's Dream
Subtitle: Fantasy for Oboe, English Horn, 2 Clarinets, 2 Horns, and 2 Bassoons
General Info
Year: 1989
Duration: c. 10:00
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Compusic
Cost: Score and Parts - $25.75
Instrumentation
Full Score
Oboe
English Horn
Bassoon I-II
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II
Horn in F I-II
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
In the score to Don Giovanni’s Dream, the composer shares the following thoughts about the piece:
The composition was written in 1989, commissioned by the Triebensee Blazers Ensemble to celebrate their tenth anniversary. Their patron is the Czech composer and conductor Josef Triebensee (1772-1846), whose beautiful arrangements of Mozart operas have been performed often by chamber wind ensembles around the world. My favorite arrangement is that of Don Giovanni for a classic wind octet. I wanted to create something like a “pendant” to this work, to make a “dream fantasy” of the story of Don Giovanni.
With the oboe as a primary solo voice, this fantasy reveals itself in a series of soloist passages and ensemble episodes. These tutti passages are meant to share a timbre with more traditional, classical works, like those of Josef Triebensee.
- Program Note from score
Media
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State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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- International Fellowship of Composers, Conductors, and Collaborators (IFC3) (Indiana, Penn.) (Jordan E. Kinsey, conductor) - 14 June 2019
- Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.) Symphonic Wind Ensemble (Chris Kaatz, conductor) – 11 November 2016
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Chorale (1979)
- Concerto for Organ, Percussion and Wind Orchestra (1979)
- Don Giovanni's Dream (1989)
- Dramatic Concerto (1979)
- Hymnos (1979)
- Luminous Voice
- Magic Concerto (1979)
Resources
- "DON GIOVANNI’S DREAM Fantasy for Wind Octet by IVANA LOUDOVÁ (Czech Republic, 1941 – 2017)." WASBE. Web. (Featured as WASBE’s Composition of the Week, 26 February 2024). Accessed 26 February 2024
- Heritage Encyclopedia of Band Music. "Loudová, Ivana." Accessed 9 November 2016
- Ivana Loudová website Accessed 9 November 2016
- Loudová, I. [1990?] Don Giovanni's Dream : Fantasy for Oboe, English Horn, 2 Clarinets, 2 Horns, And 2 Bassoons [score]. Edition Compusic: Amsterdam.