Liebestod

Richard Wagner

Richard Wagner (tr. Koh Shishikura)

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General Info

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Duration: c. 6:00
Difficulty: II (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Manuscript

Instrumentation

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Errata

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Program Notes

In December 1856, when Wagner was at work on the first act of Siegfried, he became obsessed with a melodic idea he associated with the legend of Tristan and Isolde. He subsequently broke away from his work on the Ring Cycle until his opera based on Tristan and Isolde was completed. The Prelude and Liebestod (or Love-Death) constitutes the very beginning and end of the opera, in an orchestral combination that was sanctioned by the composer as a separate entity for performance in its own right. The Prelude depicts the unvoiced longing of Tristan and. Isolde for one another, and with the Liebestod comes the fulfilment of that longing in their death together, their immortal love being voiced by Isolde as she stands over Tristan’s corpse, contemplates his transfigured soul, and joins it by taking her own life. The work is widely considered among the most powerful and emotionally gripping music ever written. Koh Shishikura’s new arrangement of Prelude and Liebestod for concert band received its world premiere at the 2014 Midwest Clinic.

-Program Note by the Saitama Sakae Wind Orchestra

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Performances

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• Saitama Sakae Wind Orchestra (Saitama, Japan) (Minoru Otaki, conductor) - 18 December 2014 (2014 Midwest Clinic) - *World Premiere Performance*

Works for Winds by this Composer

• Awake (arr. Houseknecht) (1868/1957)
• Chor der Junger from "Das Liebesmahl der Apostel" (arr. Pohler)
• Die Meistersingers, 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 von Nurnbürg (tr. Hindsley) (1868/196-?)
• Elsa's feierlicher Zug zum Münster (tr. Nefs) (1848/2017)
• Elsa's Procession to the Cathedral from "Lohengrin" (tr. Bourgeois)
• Elsa's Procession to the Cathedral from "Lohengrin" (tr. Cailliet)
• 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)
• Gathering of the Armies (arr. Friedman) (1850/1995)
• Homage March (ed. Bourgeois)
• Huldigungsmarsch (ed. Reed) (1864/2002)
• Huldigungsmarsch (ed. Schaefer) (1864/1971)
• 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. Tamanini) (1850/2005)
• Lohengren: 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 "Lohengrin" (tr. Hindsley) (1850)
• Prelude to Act III from "Lohengrin" (tr. Brand) (1850/2001)
• Procession of the Knights of the Holy Grail from "Parsifal" (arr. Houseknecht) (1964)
• 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)
• 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 Music (arr. Paul Whear)
• Siegfried's Funeral March from "Gotterdammerung" (tr. Bourgeois)
• 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)

References

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