Research Catalog

Title

Music by royal command / Giacomo Meyerbeer ; introduced and edited by Robert Ignatius Letellier.

Author

Meyerbeer, Giacomo, 1791-1864.

Publication

Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Ludwig I, King of Bavaria, 1786-1868.
• Raupach, Ernst Benjamin Salomo, 1784-1852.
• Tasso, Torquato, 1544-1595.
• Letellier, Robert Ignatius.
• Meyerbeer, Giacomo, 1791-1864.

Description

1 score (xix, 117 pages) : portrait; 21 x 30 cm

Uniform Title

Works. Selections

Alternative Title

Works.

Subject

• Ludwig I, King of Bavaria, 1786-1868 > Songs and music
• Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901 > Songs and music
• Meyerbeer, Giacomo, 1791-1864 > Facsimiles
• Auber, Daniel-François-Esprit, 1782-1871
• Music > Facsimiles
• Cantatas, Secular > Scores
• Choruses, Secular (Men's voices) with wind ensemble > Scores
• Marches (Orchestra) > Scores
• Orchestral music > Scores
• Masques with music > Excerpts
• Ballettmusik

Note

• 1st work is a cantata for TTBB soloists, male chorus and wind ensemble; 2nd work is for orchestra; 3rd work is for TTBB soloists, and mixed chorus with introduction performed by brass ensemble.
• Words by King Ludwig I of Bavaria (1st work). Words of 3rd work unattributed.
• 2nd work is from a longer work (most of it now lost) with words by Ernst Raupach, after Torquato Tasso.
• Reproduced from ms.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (page xiii).

Language (note)

• 1st and 3rd works have German words also printed as text with English translations, p.[xiv]-xix.

Contents

Der Bayerische Schützen-Marsch for King Ludwig I of Bavaria (1831) -- Festmarsch for the Prussian Court masque 'Das Hoffest zu Ferrara' (1843) -- Festbruss for the reception of Queen Victoria at the Rhine (1845).

ISBN

• 9781443826686
• 1443826685
• 14438126685 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

• ocn733691388
• 733691388
• SCSB-14392283

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries