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Flying Dutchman Overture, The
Richard Wagner (arr. Godfrey)
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General Info
Year: 1841 / 1955
Duration: c. 10:42
Difficulty: VI (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Chappell
Cost: Score and Parts – Out of print.
Instrumentation
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Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
The Flying Dutchman concerns a man condemned to sail the seas on a ghost ship. Every seven years he is cast on shore and given the opportunity to find a wife who will be faithful to him until death. Daland, a sea captain, upon promise of treasure, accepts him as fiance for his daughter Senta. She consents and vows eternal fidelity. In spite of the opposition of her suitor, Erick, and the Dutchman's admission of his curse, she frees him from it by throwing herself into the sea.
-Program Note from Program Notes for Band
The Flying Dutchman (Der fliegende Holländer), WWV 63, is a German-language opera, with libretto and music by Richard Wagner. The central theme is redemption through love. Wagner conducted the premiere at the Königliches Hoftheater in Dresden in 1843.
Wagner claimed in his 1870 autobiography Mein Leben that he had been inspired to write the opera following a stormy sea crossing he made from Riga to London in July and August 1839. In his 1843 Autobiographic Sketch, Wagner acknowledged he had taken the story from Heinrich Heine's retelling of the legend in his 1833 satirical novel The Memoirs of Mister von Schnabelewopski (Aus den Memoiren des Herrn von Schnabelewopski).
- Program Note from Wikipedia
Commercial Discography
- Audio CD: United States Navy Band (Ralph M. Gambone, conductor) - 2011
State Ratings
- Tennessee: VI
Performances
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- Rutgers University (New Brunswick, N.J.) Wind Ensemble (Kraig Williams, conductor) - 9 December 2022
- Oakland (Calif.) Municipal Band (Troy Davis, conductor) – 12 July 2015
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Awake (arr. Houseknecht) (1868/1957)
- Chor der Junger from "Das Liebesmahl der Apostel" (arr. Pohler)
- Die Meistersinger (arr. Milford) (1868/1998)
- Die Meistersinger, Excerpts from the Opera (arr. Eric Osterling)
- Die Meistersinger Overture (tr. Hindsley) (1868/197-?)
- Die Meistersinger, Prelude (arr. Moses-Tobani/H.R. Kent) (1904/1948)
- Die Meistersinger Themes (arr. Daehn) (18684/2009)
- Die Meistersinger von Nurnbürg (tr. Hindsley) (1868/196-?)
- Die Walkure, Act 2, Scene 4 (arr. King)
- Elsa's feierlicher Zug zum Münster (tr. Nefs) (1848/2017)
- Elsa's Procession to the Cathedral from "Lohengrin" (tr. Bourgeois) (1848/1997)
- Elsa's Procession to the Cathedral from "Lohengrin" (tr. Cailliet) (1848/1938)
- Elsa's Procession to the Cathedral (arr. Cherry) (1848/1999/2019)
- Elsa's Procession to the Cathedral. See also: Procession to the Cathedral (tr. Patterson)
- Entry of the Gods into Valhalla (arr. Godfrey) (1869/1906)
- Entry of the Gods into Valhalla (arr. O'Neill) (1869/1930)
- Evening Star (arr. Barnard) (1845/1927)
- Festmusik (arr. Seifert-Kressbronn) (1843-1982)
- Fest Marsch from "Tannhäuser" (tr. Rumbelow) (1845/1997)
- The Flying Dutchman (tr. Hindsley) (1843/197-?)
- Flying Dutchman Overture, The (arr. Godfrey) (1843/1955)
- Funeral Music from "The Dusk of the Gods" (arr. Godfrey) (1876/1919)
- Gathering of the Armies (arr. Friedman) (1850/1995)
- Homage March (ed. Bourgeois)
- Huldigungsmarsch (ed. Reed) (1864/2002)
- Huldigungsmarsch (ed. Schaefer) (1864/1971)
- Huldigungsmarsch (ed. Whitwell) (1864/2015)
- Italian Polka (arr Leidzen) (arr. Leidzen) (1941)
- Kaisermarsch (tr. Godfrey) (1871/1912)
- King Heinrich’s Call (tr. Bourgeois) (1850/1983)
- Invocation of Alberich from "Rheingold" (arr. Cailliet) (1869/1940)
- Liebestod (arr. Shishikura) (1856/2014)
- Liebestod (arr. Bainum) (1856/1964)
- Lohengrin (arr. Patterson) (1850/2016)
- Lohengrin (arr. Tamanini) (1850/2005)
- Lohengrin: Introduction to Act III (arr. Drumm) (1850/1937)
- March from "Tannhäuser" (arr. Lake) (1926)
- March on, America
- Nibelungen March (arr. Stretton) (c.1874/1909)
- Overture to Rienzi (arr. Grabel) (1842/1933)
- Pilgrim's Chorus (arr. Geese) (1845/2009)
- Pilgrim's Chorus (arr. Musser) (1845/)
- Pilgrim's Chorus (arr. Musser; ed. Rapp) (1845/2009)
- Pilgrim's Chorus (arr. Reed) (1845/1991)
- Prelude to Act I of "Die Meistersinger" (trans. Kreines) (1862/2012)
- Prelude to Act III from "Lohengren" (tr. Hindsley) (1850)
- Prelude to Act III from "Lohengrin" (tr. Brand) (1850/2001)
- Prelude to Act III from "Lohengrin" (arr. McAlister and Reed) (1850/2006)
- Prelude to Parsifal (tr. Bourgeois) (1882/2016)
- Procession of the Knights of the Holy Grail from "Parsifal" (arr. Houseknecht) (1964)
- Procession to the Cathedral (tr. Patterson) (1846-48/1997)
- Ride of the Valkyries (tr. Patterson)
- Ride of the Valkyries (arr. Laurendeau) (1870/1908)
- Ride of the Valkyries (tr. Longwood) (1870/2000)
- Ride of the Valkyries (arr. Hernandez) (1870)
- Rienzi Overture (arr. Meyrelles) (1842/1892)
- The Ring (arr. Higgins) (1848-1874/2020)
- Selections from Act III of "Die Meistersinger von Nurnbürg" (arr. Hanna) (1868/2015)
- Seigfried Fantasie (arr. Seidel) (1876/1893)
- Siegfried Idyll (1870)
- Siegfried's Funeral March (tr. Tanick) (1876/)
- Siegfried's Funeral March from "Gotterdammerung" (tr. Bourgeois)
- Siegfried's Funeral Music (arr. Whear) (1876/1966)
- Tannhäuser (arr. Lake) (1845/1926)
- Tannhäuser Grand March (tr. McAlister) (1845/2005)
- Tannhäuser March (arr. E. Fall) (1845)
- Tannhäuser Overture (arr. Fall) (1845/1936)
- Tannhäuser Overture (tr. Safranek) (1845/1913)
- Tannhäuser Overture (arr. Sousa) (1845/)
- Tannhäuser Overture (arr. Winterbottom) (1845/1903)
- Tannhäuser Selection (arr. Lake) (1926)
- Trauersinfonie (ed. Votta/Boyd) (1844/1924/1994)
- Trauersinfonie (tr. Leidzen) (1844/1924/1949)
- Tristan und Isolde (tr. Janssen) (1862/2015)
- Vorspiel und Liebestod (arr. Godfrey) (1865/1909)
- Wotan's Farewell and Magic Fire Music from "Die Walküre" (arr. Lake) (1874/1937)
Resources
- The Flying Dutchman (opera), Wikipedia Accessed 18 October 2020
- Smith, Norman E. (2002). Program Notes for Band. Chicago: GIA Publications, pp. 619.
- Wagner, R.; Godfrey, D. (1955). The Flying Dutchman: Overture [score]. Chappell & Co.: London.