Instrumentation
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Voices, Chorus and Orchestra
- Cast
- Commandant of the beleaguered town: (baritone)
Maria, the commandant's wife: (soprano) A Sergeant-Major: (bass) A corporal: (baritone or tenor) A private soldier: (tenor) A musketeer: (bass) A bugler: (bass) An officer: (baritone) A front-line officer: (baritone) A Piedmontese: (tenor) The Holsteiner, commanding the besieging army: (bass) The burgomaster (Mayor): (tenor) The bishop: (baritone) A woman of the people: (soprano)
- Chorus (SATB)
- Soldiers of the garrison and of the besieging army, elders of the town and
women of the deputation to the commandant, townspeople
- Pit Orchestra
- 3 flutes (3rd also piccolo), 2 oboes, english horn, clarinet (C), 2 clarinets (B♭, A)
- bass clarinet (B♭, A), 3 bassoons, contrabassoon
- 6 horns (F, E, E♭, D), 4 trumpets (E, E♭, C, B♭), 4 trombones, bass tuba
- Timpani, percussion:
- (Bass drum, snare drum, tenor drum, tam-tam)
- Strings (16,16,12,10,8)
- On-Stage Orchestra
- Trumpet, glockenspiel, organ
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