Overture to "La Forza del Destino" (arr Odom)

Giuseppe Verdi

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General Info

Year: 1862
Duration: c. 8:30
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Manuscript

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Errata

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Program Notes

Giuseppe Verdi was a visionary and innovative composer of Italian opera. Works such as Rigoletto, La Traviata, Aida, Otello and Falstaff are all commonly performed and hailed as the finest examples of the genre. In his later life, Verdi was also a politician and served in the local parliament. He worked to establish a hospital in Villanova sull’Arda, as well as a home for retired musicians in Milan.

La Forza del Destino, Verdi’s 22nd opera, was completed in 1862 and premiered in St. Petersburg on Nov. 10 of that year. The overture was not heard until Feb. 27, 1869, when the opera was revised and presented at La Scala in Milan.

This transcription, by Air Force retired Chief Master Sgt. Lawrence Odom, was dedicated to and conducted by the conductor emeritus of The United States Air Force Band, Air Force retired Col. Arnald D. Gabriel.

- Program note by TSgts. David Balandrin and Ricky Parrell

La Forza del Destino originally began with a prelude leading without a break into the first act of the opera. For the revision, Verdi lengthened and strengthened the prelude, making it into an overture coming to a full close before the curtain rises. Built from melodic, harmonic and rhythmic matters dealt with in the opera itself, the overture quotes and combines several of the most striking melodies as well as the ominous, opening, three-chord motif and the rapid, repeated, ascending accompaniment-figure associated in the opera with tragic destiny.

- Program Note from Program Notes for Band

Commercial Discography

Audio CD: United States Air Force Band (Arnald D. Gabriel, conductor)

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Performances

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United States Air Force Band (Washington, D.C.) (Arnald D. Gabriel, conductor – 19 December 2012 (2012 Midwest Clinic)

Works for Winds by This Composer

Adagio (arr. Hautvast)
Ah! Fors e lui - Sempre Libera from "La Traviata" (arr. Barrow) (1973)
Aïda: Prelude (arr. Hautvast) (/2010)
Anvil Chorus (tr. McAlister and Graham) (1853/2008)
Ave Maria volgarizzata da Dante (arr. Hartman) (1880/2019)
Ballabili (arr. Van der Beek) (1847/1865/1997)
Ballet Music from "Otello" (tr. Patterson) (1887/2003)
Bolero from "The Sicilian Vespers" (tr. Sousa) (1855)
Di Quella pira (arr. Hanna) (1853/)
Dies Irae (arr. Bocook) (1874/1998)
Excerpts from "Manzoni Requiem" (arr. Mollenhauer) (1869/1874/1965)
Fanfare from "Requiem" (arr. Decker) (1874/1989)
Il Balen del Suo Sorriso from "Il Trovatore" (arr. Brittain) (2009)
La Battaglia di Legnano (arr. Kalischnig) (1986)
La Forza del Destino (tr. Cesarini) (1862/1995)
March from "Aida" (arr. Seredy) (1871/1898/1964)
Nabucco (tr. Saurer) (1841/2004)
Nabucco Overture (tr. Cailliet) (1842/1959)
Overture to "Joan of Arc" (arr. Rollinson) (1845/1902)
Overture to "La Forza del Destino" (arr. Lake and Hunt) (1862/1946)
Overture to "La Forza del Destino" (arr. Odom) (1862)
Overture to "La Forza del Destino" (arr. Patterson) (1862/2012)
Overture to "La Forza del Destino" (arr. Rogers) (1862/1980)
Overture: "La Forza del Destino" (arr. Suzuki) (1862/2017)
Overture to "Luisa Miller" (arr. Pruyn) (1849/1988)
Overture to "Nabucco" (tr. Cailliet) (1841/1959)
Overture to "Nabucco" (arr. Neumann) (1841/2020)
Overture to "Nabucco" (arr. Rhea) (1841)
Prelude to Act I of "La Traviata" (ed. Falcone) (1853/1966)
Requiem (tr. Patterson) (1874/2005)
Rigoletto-Fantasie (arr. Goldhammer) (1851/2002)
Triumphal March from "Aida" (arr. Evžen Zámečník) (1871)
Triumphal March from "Aida" (arr. McAlister; ed. Reed) (1871)
Triumphal March from "Aida" (arr. Richard) (1871/2012)

Resources

Smith, Norman E. (2002). Program Notes for Band. Chicago: GIA Publications, pp. 610.