Tannhäuser und der Sängerkrieg auf Wartburg
composer: Richard Wagner
editor: Peter Jost
librettist: Richard Wagner
Scenario in 3 acts, WWV 70
Viennese version of 1875
Instrumentation: soloists, choir and orchestra
Orchestra Instrumentation: 3 (3. auch Picc.) · 2 · 2 · Bassklar. · 2 - 2 Ventilhr. · 2 Waldhr. · 3 · 3 · 1 - P. S. (Trgl. · Beck. · Schellentr. · gr. Tr. · Kast.) (2 Spieler) - Hfe. - Str.
Auf der Bühne: Picc. · 2 · 2 · Engl. Hr. · 3 · 0 - 4 · 12 Waldhr. · 12 · 0 · 0 - S. (Trgl. · Beck. · Schellentr.) - Hfe.
Cast of characters: Hermann, Landgraf von Thüringen · Bass - Tannhäuser · Tenor - Wolfram von Eschenbach · Bariton - Walther von der Vogelweide · Tenor - Biterolf · Bariton - Heinrich der Schreiber · Tenor - Reinmar von Zweter · Bass - Elisabeth, Nichte des Landgrafen · Sopran - Venus · Sopran - Ein junger Hirt · Sopran - Vier Edelknaben · Sopran / Alt - Thüringische Grafen - Ritter und Edelleute - Edelfrauen - ältere und jüngere Pilger - Sirenen - Najaden - Nymphen - Bacchantinnen - (3 Grazien, Amoretten, Jünglinge, Faune, Satyrn)
Publisher: Ernst Eulenburg & Co. GmbH
Duration: 185' 0''
Year of composition: 1875
Edition: study score
Language: German
Series: Eulenburg Miniature Scores
Series: Eulenburg Miniature Scores
Edition Description: New Urtext Edition - Reprinted from Richard Wagner: Sämtliche Werke, Volume 6/1-3
596 Pages - Hardback/Hard Cover
ISMN: 979-0-2002-2422-1
ISBN: 978-3-7957-6450-0
Order number: ETP 8061
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Description
Numerous revisions and adaptations are entangled in the complex history of the work 'Tannhäuser'. After the world premiere in Dresden in 1845 had failed to be well received by the audience, Wagner revised large parts of the opera several times in the following decades. The most comprehensive changes were made for the Paris performance in March 1861, but even after that he made further revisions which superseded some of the previous changes and were performed in Vienna in 1875 among others.
The study score is based on the version of 1875 which has misleadingly been published as the 'Paris version' until today and has actually to be referred to as 'Viennese version'. The musical text is identical to that of the critical edition within the Wagner Complete Edition, with the errata discovered since then having been corrected.
Content
Preface - Cast
Dramatis personae
Distribution of roles by voice
Orchestration - Tannhäuser:
Ouvertüre
Erster Aufzug
1. Szene (Der Venusberg)
2. Szene. Venus und Tannhäuser
3. Szene. Tannhäuser. Ein junger Hirt. Pilger
4. Szene. Tannhäuser. Der Landgraf und die Sänger
Zweiter Aufzug
Einleitung und 1. Szene. Elisabeth
2. Szene. Elisabeth. Tannhäuser. Wolfram
3. Szene. Elisabeth. Der Landgraf
4. Szene. Der Landgraf. Elisabeth. Die Sänger. Grafen, Ritter und Edelfrauen
Der Sängerkrieg
Dritter Aufzug
Einleitung (Tannhäusers Pilgerfahrt)
1. Szene. Elisabeth. Wolfram. Die älteren Pilger
2. Szene. Wolfram allein
3. Szene. Wolfram. Tannhäuser. Die Sänger, die älteren und die jüngeren Pilger
Other Editions
AF 4000 = score (Paris version)
RWA 106-30 = score (complete edition), version 1861-1875 with alternatives, part 3 and critical commentary
RWA 106-20 = score (complete edition), version 1861-1875 with alternatives, part 2
RWA 106-10 = score (complete edition), version 1861-1875 with alternatives, part 1
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