Score,set of parts sheet music by hector berlioz 18031869. The cycle was neglected for many years, but during the 20th century it. Purchase, download and print sheet music pdf file now. Philharmonia baroque orchestra nicholas mcgegan lorraine. Berlioz was expected to follow his father into medicine, and he. The collection was completed in 1841 and initially composed for tenor and mezzosoprano, later arranged for baritone, contralto, or soprano, and piano. Berlioz adapted and modified the poems but left their essence unchanged and the gender identities break down as follows. The spirit of the rose, where the exquisite rosepetaled costume of the spectre, or spirit, seemed almost to emit a magical perfume, and where the simple naturalism of the sleeping girls bedroom emphasized her dreaming. Berlioz orchestrated one of the songs in 1843, and did the same for the other five in 1856. Danish radio symphonic orchestra denmarks radio concert hall. The hector berlioz website berlioz libretti les nuits dete.
Louishector berlioz 11 december 1803 8 march 1869 was a french romantic composer. Trois phrases musicales, correspondant a chacune des 3 strophes du poeme. Hector berlioz werke berlioz, hector movementssections movtssecs. Free sheet music, all with audio sample and single voice trainer. The hector berlioz website was created by monir tayeb and michel. Gautier in pdf format, in that case you come on to right website. New edition of the complete works berlioz, hector warning please note that this list is manually updated, and may not contain imslps complete collection. She is the rose whose art visits me at night, and whose love and i can still feel in her voice.
Url consultato il 10 giugno 2012 archiviato dallurl originale il 23 gennaio 2012. Villanelle is the simplest of songs, and yet berlioz gives it depth and interest by changing the harmonies and the orchestration for each verse. Berlioz composed les nuits dete, a set of six songs to texts by theophile gautier. Eleanor steber soprano dimitri mitropoulos conductor. It is about a young girl who dreams of dancing with the spirit of a souvenir rose from her first ball.
Het ballet is gezet op hector berlioz herwerking uit 1841 van afforderung zum tanz, een pianostuk van carl maria. Dancers at the premiere were vaslav nijinsky as the spirit of the rose and tamara. Open those eyelids now closed, softtouched by a maidens pure dream. Danish archive, concert given march 09, 1972 in frederiksberg. The screenplay was adapted for the radio series inner sanctum mysteries on august 19, 1946. In 1843 berlioz orchestrated the fourth song, absence for his lover, marie recio, who premiered it in leipzig on 23 february 1843. Berlioz s les nuits dete a survey of the discography by. I am the ghost of the rose that you wore to the ball yestereven. The cycle, completed in 1841, was originally for soloist and piano accompaniment. Within her graveyard bed my soul, my love shell keep. And following the translation, the link to the song performed by lorraine hunt lieberson.