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The Beautiful Galatea Overture: Study score

The Beautiful Galatea Overture: Study score

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Publication Date: March 16th, 2015
Publisher:
Serenissima Music
ISBN:
9781608741533
Pages:
42
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Description

By the 1860s, the operettas of French composer Jacques Offenbach were becoming ppopular with the Viennese audience. Franz von Supp , already established in the Austrian Imperial capital as an operetta composer and conductor, found the new competition stimulating enough to produce a new two-act operetta based upon the classic tale of the sculptor Pygmalion falling in love with his statue of Galath e. The first performance was given in Berlin on June 30, 1863 with the Vienna premiere at the Carltheater on September 9, 1865. Die sch ne Galath e proved to be one of the composer's most successful, with performances in London and New York. Though the operetta is largely forgotten now, Supp 's brilliant overture has never left the concert repertoire. First issued in 2006 by the now defunct publisher E.F. Kalmus, Dr. McAlister's superb edition is now exclusively available from Serenissima Music in all formats, the present study score, the full score and orchestral parts.