La Boutique Fantasque (arr Godfrey)
Gioacchino Rossini (arr. Ottorino Respighi; arr. Godfrey; additional parts Erik Leidzén)
The title translates as "The Fantastic Toy Shop."
General Info
Year: 1922
Duration: c. 10:30
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Chapell & Co.
Cost: Score and Parts – Out of print.
For availability information, see Discussion area.
Movements
1. Danse Cosaque
2. Nocturne
3. Mazurka
4. Tarantella
5. Can Can
6. Galop
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo/Flute
Oboe
Bassoon I-II
E-flat Soprano Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet Solo-I-II-III
E-flat Alto Saxophone or Alto Clarinet
B-flat Tenor Saxophone or Bass Clarinet
B-flat Cornet I-II
B-flat Trumpet
Horn in F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Bass Trombone
Euphonium
Tuba
String Bass
Harp
Timpani
Percussion, including:
- Bass Drum
- Crash Cymbals
- Glockenspiel
- Snare Drum
- Tambourine
- Triangle
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
The music of this delightful work was amongst the unpublished MSS [manuscripts] of Rossini. The number had been written for piano, and perhaps put aside by the composer, or, more probably, rejected by the publishers of his period. They were discovered lately and adapted by one of the most advanced of the Italian "Moderns," Otto Respighi, for the use of the Russian ballet in whose repertoire the music has been made an outstanding success. The vitality of these unconventional numbers is most striking; the harmony progressions and the audacious rhythms might easily be accepted as the work of a contemporary writer.
The scene of the ballet is a doll shop in which the customers are caricatures of tourist types. After the closing of the store the dolls wake to a fantastic activity and enact the following dances: Danse Cosaque, Nocturne, Allego non troppo, Mazurka, Tarantelle, Valse Lente, Can Can, Andantino, Galop.
-Program Note from score
Media
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State Ratings
- South Carolina: V
Performances
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- Parkland College (Champaign, Ill.) Concert Band (Larry Stoner, conductor) - 8 December 2019
- Encore Concert Band (Mokena, Ill.) (Bill Schuetter, conductor) – 28 February 2016
- Orquestra Mount Prospect (Ill.) Band (Ralph Wilder, conductor) – 15 November 2009
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- William Tell Overture (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Stanton) (1829/2009)
- William Tell Overture (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Thorp) (1829/2005)
All Wind Works
- Barber of Seville (arr. Meyrelles) (1816/1899)
- The Barber of Seville (arr. Williams) (1816/2005)
- Barber of Seville Overture (arr. Lake) (1816/1927)
- The Barber of Seville Overture (arr. Duthoit) (1816/1940)
- The Barber of Seville Overture (arr. Singleton) (1816/2002)
- Figaro in Stereo (adapt. Yoder) (1970)
- Il Barbiere di Siviglia (arr. Cesarini) (1816/2011)
- Inflammatis from "Stabat Mater" (arr. Laurendeau and Meyrelles) (1842/1911)
- Introduction, Theme and Variations (arr. Tamanini) (1819/2017)
- Italian en Argel
- Italian in Algiers (arr. Cailliet) (1952)
- La Boutique Fantasque (arr. Respighi; tr. Mahaffey) (2009)
- La Boutique Fantasque (adapt. Respighi; arr. Godfrey) (1922)
- La Cenerentola (arr. Daehn) (1817/2007)
- La Danza (arr. Erickson) (1835/1967)
- La Gazza Ladra (tr. Cailliet) (1817/1954)
- La Gazza Ladra (arr. Molenaar) (1817/2000)
- L'italiana in Algeri (tr. Sedlak; ed. Lonoce) (1813/1992)
- L'italiana in Algeri (tr. Van der Beek) (1813/2008)
- March for the Sultan Abdul Medjid (arr. Townsend) (1851/1967)
- Overture from the Opera "La Gazza Ladra" (arr. Oliver) (1817)
- Overture to "The Barber of Seville" (arr. Boll) (1816/2013)
- Overture to "The Barber of Seville" (arr. Sedlak) (1816/1983)
- Overture to "The Italian Girl in Algiers" (arr. Cailliet) (1813/1952)
- Overture to "The Italian Girl in Algiers" (tr. Mose-Tobani; arr. Laurendeau) (1813/1898/1947)
- Passo a sei (tr. Dunnigan)
- Scherzo for Band (scored by Schaefer) (1864/1977)
- Semiramide (arr. Safranek; ed. Robertson) (1823/1939)
- Soirées musicales (arr. Britten and Brown) (1830-1835/1946)
- String Quartet No. 1
- Tancredi Overture (tr. Falcone) (1813/1975)
- Three Marches for the Marriage of the Duke of Orléans (ed. Townsend) (1827/1972)
- Una Voce Poco Fa from "Barber of Seville" (arr. Barrow) (1816/1973)
- William Tell Overture (arr. anon) (1829)
- William Tell Overture (arr. Elkus) (1829/1988)
- William Tell Overture (arr. Griffin) (1829/)
- William Tell Overture (arr. Leidzen; ed. Fry) (1829/1938/2007)
- William Tell Overture (tr. Sousa and Schissel) (1829/2014)
- William Tell Overture (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Stanton) (1829/2009)
- William Tell Overture (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Thorp) (1829/2005)
Resources
- Rossini, G.; Respighi, O; Godfrey, D.; Leidzen, E. [1922] Selection, La Boutique Fantasque = (The Fantastic Toy Shop) [score]. [Chappell]: [New York].