Der Fall Babylons, WoO 63 (Spohr, Louis)

		Movements/Sections 2 "acts" (17 numbers in the first, 14 in the second) Composition Year December 1839-December 1840 Genre Categories Sacred oratorios; Oratorios; Religious works; 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

Sheet Music

• Vocal Scores (4)

Vocal Scores

 Complete Score
*#80252 - 53.57MB, 192 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (0) - V/V/V - 454x⇩

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Schissel (2010/10/1)

Editor:

Second edition

Language:

English

Translator:

Edward Taylor (1784-1863), English text

Publisher Info.:

London: Novello, Ewer & Co., n.d.(1867).

Copyright:

Public Domain [tag/del]

Misc. Notes:

The overture is arranged for piano 4-hands.

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 Segment 1
*#94872 - 3.85MB, 84 (x, #1-74) pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (0) - V/V/V - 172x⇩

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Fynnjamin (2011/3/4)

 Segment 2
*#94873 - 5.31MB, 112 (#75-184, ii) pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (0) - V/V/V - 95x⇩

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 Colour covers
*#94874 - 0.30MB, 2 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (0) - V/V/V - 59x⇩

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Fynnjamin (2011/3/4)

Arranger:

William Thomas Best (1826-1897) - Overture only

Language:

English

Translator:

Edward Taylor (1784-1863), English text

Publisher Info.:

London & New York: Novello, Ewer & Co., (1896). Plate 8076.

Copyright:

Public Domain [tag/del]

Misc. Notes:

This file is part of the Sibley Mirroring Project.
The overture is arranged for piano solo by W.T. Best.
The date 21/10/96 appears on the last 2 pages.

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General Information

Work Title	Der Fall Babylons, WoO 63
Alternative Title	The Fall of Babylon

Composer	Spohr, Louis
Opus/Catalogue Number	WoO 63
Movements/Sections	2 "acts" (17 numbers in the first, 14 in the second)
Year/Date of Composition	December 1839-December 1840
First Performance	St. Cecilia's Day, 1840, Kassel (from piano score). 1842, Norwich (with orchestra)
First Publication	ca.1842.
Librettist	Edward Taylor (1784-1863) of Norwich, translator
Language	German and English
Piece Style	Romantic
Instrumentation	Soloists, Chorus, Orchestra

Misc. Comments

Initially composed for the Norwich Festival of 1842, though first given a performance (from piano score- not yet orchestrated) in Kassel by Spohr in 1840. Orchestrated October-December 1840.

Re the librettist see Wikisource. (written originally in English, then translated into German according to Spohr biographer Clive Brown- but then Taylor had to retranslate the text into English.)

• Louis Spohr: A Critical Biography (Google Books) by Clive Brown, p256, which provides information on this oratorio.

There is a second "edition" published around 1867 but Brown does not seem to mention any revisions - this may have been simply a matter of getting the oratorio back on the market of course.

Apparently only the overture so far has been recorded, on a Hyperion CD with symphonies 3 and 6, in 2010 (the year I write this.)