La vestale (Spontini, Gaspare)

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Copyist Johann Christoph Beck (1755–1827)
Christian Adolph Gutmacher (d. 1822)
Johann Christoph Zucker (1756–1814)
Language Italian
Publisher. Info. Manuscript, n.d.(ca.1810).
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Misc. Notes Sächsische Landesbibliothek, Dresden (D-Dl): Mus.4308-F-504
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Copyist Copyists of Wien
Language German
Translator Ignaz Seyfried (1776–1841), German text
Publisher. Info. Manuscript, 1829.
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Misc. Notes Sächsische Landesbibliothek, Dresden (D-Dl): Mus.4308-F-508
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Language Italian
Publisher. Info. Milan: Ricordi, n.d.[1887]. Plate 51632.
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Overture

Publisher. Info. Paris: Mesdemoiselles Erard, n.d.(ca.1808). Plate 700.
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Overture

15 more: Oboe 1/2 • Clarinet 1/2 (C) • Clarinet 1/2 (B♭, transposed) • Bassoon 1/2 • Horn 1/2/3/4 (original keys) • Horn 1/2/3/4 (F, transposed) • Trumpet 1/2 (D) • Trumpet 1/2 • Trombone 1/2/3 (tenor, bass clefs) • Timpani • Violins I • Violins II • Violas • Cellos • Basses

Editor William D. Halsey
Publisher. Info. Meyerbeer Associates
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Misc. Notes These parts were prepared with love and respect for G. Spontini. There is a rather sad plaque that one can see in Maiolati Spontini, a town in the hills above Ancona, Spontini's hometown where he retired after his opera writing career was over, to do "good works" with his French wife Celeste in the Catholic tradition. It says, even if I didn't write the Barber of Seville, I did good works. Well even if he didn't write the Barber of Seville it was he, not Rossini, Auber or Meyerbeer who created Grand Opera! And if he tended to write the same opera more than once, as so many do -- he wrote four grand operas, Agnese his last being perhaps the most stupendous -- it was not due to a lack of imagination or craft but an excess of passion.
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Publisher. Info. Paris: Mesdemoiselles Erard, n.d.(ca.1808). Plate E. 1001.
Reprinted Paris: Richault, n.d. Plate (E. 1001).
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Arranger Friedrich Schneider (1786–1853)
Language German / French
Publisher. Info. Leipzig: C.F. Peters, n.d.(ca.1810). Plate 945, 947, 956.
Reprinted Moscow: Elibron Classics, n.d.
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Rokahr Family Archive Mirroring Project.
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Language French / German
Publisher. Info. Berlin: Kunst- und Industrie-Comptoir, n.d.(ca.1828). Plate 104, 138, 200.
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Language Italian
Translator Giovanni Schmidt (ca.1775–ca.after 1839)
Publisher. Info. Milan: Ricordi, n.d. [1875]. Plate 44685-86.
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O des infortunés, déesse tutélaire / O Nume tutelar (Act II No.13)

Editor Mme Auguez de Montalant
Publisher. Info. Album Musica, No.90
Paris: Pierre Lafitte, 1910.
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Misc. Notes annotée et commentée par Mme Auguez de Montalant
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Editor Manuele Pinna (b. 1985)
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For Piano (Schubert)
Arranger Franz Ludwig Schubert (1804–1868)
Publisher. Info. Leipzig: Friedlein & Hirsch, n.d.(ca.1830). Plate 29.
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Overture

For Guitar and Piano (Derwort)
Arranger Georg Heinrich Derwort (1789–1835)
Publisher. Info. London: Wessel & Stodart, n.d. Plate W. & S. 144.
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For 2 Guitars (Giuliani)
Arranger Mauro Giuliani (1781–1828)
Publisher. Info. Vienna: Artaria, n.d.[1811]. Plate 2214.
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For Piano 4 hands (Ulrich)
Arranger Hugo Ulrich (1827–1872)
Publisher. Info. Leipzig: C.F. Peters, n.d. Plate 5294.5711.
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Arranger Hugo Ulrich (1827–1872)
Publisher. Info. Leipzig: C.F. Peters, n.d. Plate 7141.
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For Piano 4 hands
Publisher. Info. New York: Schirmer, 1895. Plate 11879.
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For Piano (Ulrich)
Arranger Hugo Ulrich (1827-1872)
Publisher. Info. Ouverturen-Album. Sammlung der beliebtesten Ouverturen für Pianoforte solo.
Leipzig: C.F. Peters, n.d.(ca.1889). Plate 7340.
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For Piano
Publisher. Info. Répertoire der besten Opern
Vienna: S.A. Steiner, n.d.(ca.1815). Plate C. D. 2310.
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Marcia trionfale (Act I)

For Guitar (Giuliani)
Arranger Mauro Giuliani (1781–1828)
Publisher. Info. Berlin: Concha et Comp, n.d.[1820]. Plate 432.
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Publisher. Info. Roullet / P. Didot l'ainé?
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General Information

Work Title La vestale
Alternative. Title Tragédie lyrique en trois actes
Name Translations La vestal; La Vestale; ヴェスタの巫女; Westalka; Vestalen; [7 more...]Весталка; Վեստալուհի; A szűz; Веста хĕрĕ; Vestal Bakiresi; Η Εστιάς; العذراء فيستال (سبونتيني)
Authorities WorldCat; Wikipedia; VIAF: 219028204; LCCN: no95041035; GND: 300331339; [2 more...]SUDOC: 052637549; BNF: 13919550f
Composer Spontini, Gaspare
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No. IGS 11
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's 3 acts:
  • Act I
  • Act II
8. Toi che j'emplore / Tu che invoco
13, O des infortunés déesse tutélaire / O Nume tutelar
  • Act III
First Performance. 1807-12-15 in Paris: Opéra
First Publication. 1808
Librettist Étienne de Jouy (1764–1846)
Language French
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period Romantic
Piece Style Classical
Instrumentation voices, mixed chorus, orchestra
InstrDetail [more...]
Roles
Licinius, général romain (tenor)
Cinna, chef de légion (tenor)
Le Souverain Pontife (bass)
Julia, jeune vestale (soprano)
La Grande Vestale (mezzo-soprano)
Le Chef des Aruspices (bass)
Un Consul

Mixed Chorus (SATB)
Orchestra

2 flutes (both also piccolo), 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons
4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, timpani, strings
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