Erl King

Franz Schubert

Subtitle: Excerpts from 'Erlkönig'

General Info

Year: 1815 / 2013
Duration: c. 3:00
Difficulty: III 1/2 (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Daehn Publications
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $76.00 | Score Only (print) - $6.00

Instrumentation

Full Score
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III
Horn in F I-II
Trombone I-II
Euphonium
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion, including:

Bass Drum
Crash Cymbals
Snare Drum

Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

Experience all the drama and terror of Goethe's poem and Schubert's score! The frightening story of the wild ride of a boy and his father through the stormy night, assailed by the dreaded Erl-Kingin, is told convincingly in this setting for concert band.

- Program Note from publisher

Erlkönig is a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. It depicts the death of a child assailed by a supernatural being, the Erlking or "Erlkönig". An anxious young boy is being carried home at night by his father on horseback. As the poem unfolds, the son seems to see and hear beings his father does not, but he chooses to comfort his son, asserting reassuringly naturalistic explanations for what the child sees – a wisp of fog, rustling leaves, shimmering willows. Finally, the child shrieks that he has been attacked. The father rides faster toward home. There, he recognizes that the boy is dead.

The poem was originally composed by Goethe as part of a 1782 Singspiel entitled Die Fischerin. It has been set to music by several composers, most notably by Franz Schubert in his Opus 1, D 328 for voice and piano.

- Program Note from Wikipedia

Media

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State Ratings

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Performances

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Kings County (N.Y.) Concert Band (Jasmine Britt, conductor) – 29 October 2016
Brooklyn (N.Y.) Wind Symphony (Jeff Ball, conductor) – 18 November 2015

Works for Winds by This Composer

Adaptable Music

Marche Militaire (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Takahashi) (1818/2016)

All Wind Works

Andante con Moto (arr. Bulla) (1816/2003)
Ave Maria (arr. Klemke) (1825/2006)
Ave Maria (arr. Ticheli) (1825/2004)
Ave Maria (arr. Warner) (1825/)
Deutsche Messe (1827)
Eine Kleine Trauermusik (1813)
Erl King (arr. Daehn) (2013)
First Movement from "Symphony in B minor, no. 8" (arr. Cailliet) (1822/1938)
Impromptu (arr. Hautvast) (2014)
Little Symphony for Winds (tr. Reynolds) (1817-18/2003)
Marche Militaire (arr. Harnsberger) (1818/2011)
Marche Militaire (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Takahashi) (1818/2016)
Marche Militaire No. 1 (arr. Musgrave) (1818/2003)
6 Minuets (1811)
Military March (arr. Sacchini) (1818/2007)
Octet F major (compl. Stamm) (1813/2004)
Rosamunde Overture (arr. Winterbottom)
Sanctus (tr. Curnow) (1827/1996)
Scherzo and Trio in F (arr. Emerson) (1817/1975)
Symphony No. 5 (arr. Hovey) (1816/1973)
Symphony No. 8 Mvmt. 1 (arr. Rollins)
Unfinished Symphony. See: First Movement from "Symphony in B minor, no. 8"

Resources

Der Erlkönig, Wikipedia Accessed 30 October 2016