1. Preludio a Orchestra

[E minor]

Sources Notes
TIME OF ORIGIN

1875 (completed 5 August).

PERFORMANCES

First performance (see NOTES): 6 October 1999 at the Teatro del Giglio, Lucca, by the Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala; conductor: Riccardo Muti.

First performance of the complete autograph score (1.B.2): 21 November 2024 at the Alfried Krupp Saal, Essen, by the Essener Philarmoniker; conductor: Andrea Sanguineti.

INSTRUMENTATION

Piccolo, 2 Flutes, 2 Oboes, 2 Clarinets, 2 Bassoons, 2 Horns, 2 Trumpets, 3 Trombones, Ophicleide, Timpani, Strings.

LITERATURE

Fellerer 1937a, pp. 18 and 116–117; Fellerer 1937b, p. 687; Natale Gallini in Approdo musicale 1959, pp. 29–30; Michael Elphinstone in Quaderni 1992, p. 119; Magri 1999, pp. 107–110; Girardi 2005; Pecci 2005; Girardi 2010;  Girardi, Bernardoni and Schickling 2015, pp. XII-XIII, XVII-XVIII, XXIII-XXIV, 137, 143, 149.

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