Loreley (Lachner, Ignaz)

Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's	4 acts
First Publication	1857 – Hamburg: Fritz Schuberth
Genre Categories	Grand operas; Theatrical Works; Operas; For voices, mixed chorus, orchestra; Scores featuring the voice; Scores featuring mixed chorus; Scores featuring the orchestra; For voices and chorus with orchestra; German language

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Overture (Op.49)

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Publisher. Info.	Offenbach: Johann André, n.d.[1865]. Plate 9363.
Copyright	Public Domain [tag/del]
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Work Title	Loreley
Alternative. Title	Loreley, die Fee am Rhein; große romantische Oper mit Ballet in vier Aufzüge
Composer	Lachner, Ignaz
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No.	IIL 8
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's	4 acts
First Performance.	1846 — Munich Court Theatre
First Publication.	1857 – Hamburg: Fritz Schuberth
Librettist	Wilhelm Molitor (1819–1880) and Wendling (?) (also?: Ulrich Riester & Valentin Wohlgemuth?)
Language	German
Dedication	Düsseldorfer allegemeinen Musikverein (overture only?)
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period	Romantic
Piece Style	Romantic
Instrumentation	Voices: soloists + chorus Orchestra: 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons + 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones + timpani + strings
Manuscript Sources	Historical Performance Material of the Bavarian State Opera Choral Score Materials from Bavarian State Opera

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Premiere date possibly September 6. See Program Notes, Boston Symphony Orchestra written as, apparently, very deep background to a 1905 program containing a performance of Liszt's "Loreley".

The overture was published separately as Lachner's Op.49. Orchestration is for the overture.

"Stokes' Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians" (1909) (p.342) of course in its entry on "Loreley" attributes the opera to "F." Lachner.

BSB has uploaded the libretto, also (WorldCat.)

The various BSB card catalog entries for the performance materials for Loreley (only two of the considerable number of which are linked above), have (translating, right after Molitor and Wendling) "[Deleted]: Ulrich Riester & Valentin Wohlgemuth". It's unclear whether the librarians mean that those names should be there and are lacking, or are there and should not be!