Hélène, H 40 (Berlioz, Hector)

		Movements/Sections 6 strophes (or just 1, 2, 3, and 6) Composition Year A: 1829 B: orch. 1844 Genre Categories Ballads; For 4 voices, piano; For voices with keyboard; Scores featuring the voice; Scores featuring the tenor voice; Scores featuring the bass voice; Scores featuring the piano; For male chorus, piano; Scores featuring male chorus; For chorus with keyboard; For male chorus, orchestra; Scores featuring the orchestra; For chorus with orchestra; French language

Sheet Music

• Full Scores (1)
• Vocal Scores (1)

Full Scores

 Complete Score
*#55697 - 1.45MB, 6 pp. -  10.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (1) - V/V/17* - 531x⇩

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Daphnis (2010/2/11)

Editor:

Charles Malherbe (1853–1911)
Felix Weingartner (1863–1942)

Translator:

Emma Klingenfeld (1846–1935), German text
Percy Pinkerton (1855–1946), English text

Publisher Info.:

Hector Berlioz Werke, Serie VI, Band 14.
Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1900–07. Plate H.B. 36

Copyright:

Public Domain - Non-PD EU [tag/del]

Misc. Notes:

Only the English translation is possibly under copyright in the EU.

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Vocal Scores

 Complete Score
*#64208 - 1.29MB, 6 pp. -  9.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (2) - V/V/17* - 715x⇩

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Daphnis (2010/5/14)

Editor:

Charles Malherbe (1853–1911)
Felix Weingartner (1863–1942)

Translator:

Emma Klingenfeld (1846–1935), German text
Percy Pinkerton (1855–1946), English text

Publisher Info.:

Hector Berlioz Werke, Serie VII, Band 16.
Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1900–07. Plate H.B. 73

Copyright:

Public Domain - Non-PD EU [tag/del]

Misc. Notes:

Only the English translation is possibly under copyright in the EU.

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General Information

Work Title	Hélène: ballade
Alternative Title

Composer	Berlioz, Hector
Opus/Catalogue Number	Œuvre 2, No.2; H 40
Key	G major
Movements/Sections	6 strophes (or just 1, 2, 3, and 6)
Year/Date of Composition	A: 1829 B: orch. 1844
First Performance	B: Salle Herz, 3 February 1844
First Publication	1830 (vocal score) 1903 (full score)
Librettist	Thomas Moore (1779–1852), Irish Melodies Thomas Gounet (1801–69), French translation
Language	French
Average Duration	5’
Piece Style	Romantic
Instrumentation	A: TTBB, pf B: TTBB – 0,1,0,0 – 4,0,0,0 – timp – str

Misc. Comments

Publication History

• Paris: January 1830, as Œuvre 2, No.2 (vocal score)
• Paris: 1863, H 40A included in Collection de 32 Mélodies: no. 8
• Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel, n.d., as part of Hector Berlioz Werke (1900–07), Serie VI, Band 14 (1903) and Serie VII, Band 16 (1904), edited by Charles Malherbe and Felix Weingartner
• Kassel: Bärenreiter, as part of New Berlioz Edition (1967–2005)

  H 40B in BA 5452/I, Volume 12a (1991), edited by Julian Rushton

  H 40A in BA 5455, Volume 15 (2005), edited by Ian Rumbold

Libretto

Libretto at The Hector Berlioz Website