Publication year 1953
Catalogue no. A.0120
Duration 10 minutes
Ouverture til “Correggio”
(1858)
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(1858)
Publication year 1953
Catalogue no. A.0120
Duration 10 minutes
J. P. E. Hartmann’s overture to Correggio was first performed on 19 December 1860 at a concert at the Music Society in Copenhagen. – The composer had provided the following notes for the programme:
The introduction depicts Correggio’s dreamy, melancholic mood, interrupted by revelations of the sacred ideals of his art; – the Allegro represents the hopes of his life, at times darkened by despondency, at times enlivened by new inner revelations; – The finale: Correggio’s death and the future greatness of his name.
Adam Oehlenschlager’s tragedy Correggio, which deals with the Italian Renaissance painter Antonio Allegri da Correggio, had been first performed at the Royal Theatre on 29 January 1811. The musical numbers had been composed for the occasion by Kapellmeister F. L. Æ. Kunzen, but Kunzen had not composed an overture. Correggio was performed at regular intervals and was the one of Oehlenschlager’s works most frequently performed abroad, particularly in Germany, where it became the model for a long series of artist dramas.
For the present edition, Hartmann’s original score has been used, which is held in J. P. E. Hartmann’s collection at the Royal Library. It is dated 1 June 1858. On the title page, the words ‘Overture to Correggio’ are written in pencil by another hand, and this title is also printed on the cover of the original score. However, at the premiere, the overture was listed in the programme as ‘Overture to Oehlenschlager’s Tragedy: Correggio’. In the three-volume edition of Hartmann’s four-hand piano music, published in 1892, it is titled ‘Overture to Correggio’, the tile which is also used here.
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