Notturno, Op.34 (Spohr, Louis)

		Composition Year 1815 Genre Categories Nocturnes; For military band; Scores featuring military band; For orchestra without strings; For piano 4 hands (arr); Scores featuring the piano; Scores featuring the piano 4 hands; For 2 players; For cello, piano (arr); Scores featuring the cello; For oboe, piano (arr); Scores featuring the oboe; For organ (arr); For 1 player; Scores featuring the organ

Sheet Music

• Parts (1)
• Arrangements and Transcriptions (6)

Parts

 Complete Parts
*#177457 - 13.20MB, 82 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (0) - V/V/V - 704x⇩

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Fynnjamin (2012/2/10)

Publisher Info.:

Leipzig: C.F. Peters, n.d.[1853]. Plate 3598.

Copyright:

Public Domain [tag/del]

Misc. Notes:

Includes some manuscript copies.

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Arrangements and Transcriptions

Complete

For Piano 4 hands

 Complete score
*#57335 - 1.75MB, 31 pp. -  6.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (1) - V/V/V - 495x⇩

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Morel (2010/2/25)

 Color cover
*#57336 - 0.17MB, 1 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (0) - V/V/V - 76x⇩

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Morel (2010/2/25)

Publisher Info.:

Leipzig: C.F. Peters, n.d.(ca.1817). Plate 1262.

Copyright:

Public Domain [tag/del]

Misc. Notes:

This file is part of the Sibley Mirroring Project. Whistling, 1817 lists this arrangement.

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Selections

For Cello and Piano (Grützmacher)

 Piano Part
*#68669 - 1.28MB, 12 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (0) - V/V/V - 146x⇩

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Generoso (2010/6/19)

 Cello Part
*#68670 - 0.65MB, 25 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (0) - V/V/V - 191x⇩

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Generoso (2010/6/19)

Arranger:

Friedrich Grützmacher (1832-1903)

Publisher Info.:

Leipzig: C.F. Peters, n.d.(ca.1857). Plate 3639.

Copyright:

Public Domain [tag/del]

Misc. Notes:

Paraphrases entitled Grand Duo.
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Andante con Variationi

For Oboe and Piano (Klemcke)

 Complete Score and Part
*#52716 - 1.40MB, 11 pp. -  10.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (1) - V/V/V - 464x⇩

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Daphnis (2010/1/12)

Arranger:

Louis Klemcke

Publisher Info.:

Heilbronn: C.F. Schmidt, n.d.[1895]. Plates C.F.S. 114, 116, 118.

Reprinted:

Melville, NY: Belwin Mills, n.d. (ca. 1970). Catalog K 4519.

Copyright:

Public Domain [tag/del]

Misc. Notes:

The above HMB is an arrangement for flute or violin and piano. However, the score says "oboe or violin or flute", and the original CF Schmidt plates are as above according to Baldwin-Wallace Library Catalog.

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Adagio

For Organ solo (Lux)

 Complete Score
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Massenetique (2012/10/18)

Arranger:

Friedrich Lux (1820-1895)

Publisher Info.:

Mainz: B. Schott's Söhne, n.d.[1878]. Plate 22465.

Copyright:

Public Domain [tag/del]

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General Information

Work Title	Notturno, Op.34
Alternative Title	Notturno für Harmonie und Janitscharen-Musik

Composer	Spohr, Louis
Opus/Catalogue Number	Op.34
Key	C major
Year/Date of Composition	1815
First Publication	1816 (arrangement) 1826 (original score)
Dedication	Günther Friedrich Carl, Fürst zu Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
Piece Style	Romantic
Instrumentation	Winds, Percussion. (piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 clarinets, 2 oboes, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 2 horns, post-horn, corno di basso, 2 trumpets, trombone, triangle, bass drum (tamburo grande), cymbals (piatti))

Misc. Comments

Grove lists the instrumentation of this piece as being "wind insts, Turkish band". Though a nocturne is supposed to be a "night piece", and one would normally associate that with restfulness, this piece in its original form is as noisy as one would expect of a band employing Turkish band types of instruments. Various instruments, notably the clarinet, have soloistic roles to play, and the percussion don't play in all the movements.

A nocturne did not take on the "restful" meaning now associated until John Field's piano pieces of that name (around this time, true- don't know if Spohr knew them, but - different context, anyway). Notturnos by Mozart and others are like serenades and divertimenti of the time, meant for open-air performance, often in the background, at and for various occasions (Mozart wrote a number of very good works indeed of this kind...) - Schissel

According to Brown, the Notturno was not published until 1826. The duet arrangement seems to have appeared around 1816, though, so presumably the full score/parts are meant...