Beethoven, Ludwig van: Overture no. 3 for the Opera „Leonore” (1806)

pocket score

Setting: Orchestra
Period: Classic
Length: 68 pages
Weight: 0.159 kg
Publisher: G. Henle Verlag
Item number: HN9046
Other reference: HN9041-8
ISMN: 9790201890463
For his only opera Leonore/Fidelio, Beethoven wrote four overtures in total. Chronologically, the so-called Leonore Overture no. 3 is the second of the series and perhaps the most performed of all Beethoven's overtures. During hisown lifetime, it was heard not only in the theatre, but also in concert, thereby establishing with the Coriolan and Egmont overtures the new genre of the concert overture. Recognized around the middle of the nineteenth century asa masterpiece, it went on to become the d

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