Grande ouverture de Waverley, H 26 (Berlioz, Hector)

		Composition Year 1827 Genre Categories Overtures; For orchestra; Scores featuring the orchestra

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Editor:

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

Publisher Info.:

Hector Berlioz Werke, Serie II, Band 4.
Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1900–07. Plate H.B. 5

Copyright:

Public Domain [tag/del]

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General Information

Work Title	Grande Ouverture de Waverley
Alternative Title

Composer	Berlioz, Hector
Opus/Catalogue Number	Œuvre 1 ; H 26
Key	D major
Year/Date of Composition	1827
First Performance	1828-05-26 in Paris, Conservatoire.
First Publication	1839
Dedication	Colonel Félix Marmion (1787–1869)
Average Duration	12 minutes
Piece Style	Romantic
Instrumentation	Orchestra 2 flutes (2nd also piccolo), 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 4 bassoons 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, ophecleide (tuba), timpani, strings
External Links	Wikipedia article on Berlioz overtures On-line score (Scorch format) at Berlioz website

Misc. Comments

Loosely based on Berlioz’s impressions of the novel by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) and bearing a quotation “Dreams of love and Lady’s charms/Give place to honour and to arms”, the work was dedicated to the composer’s maternal uncle, who may have played a part in his earliest publications dating from the late 1810s/early 1820s.

Publication History

• Paris: 1839, Œuvre 1 (full score)
• Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel, n.d. (1901), as part of Hector Berlioz Werke (1900–07), Serie II, Band V, edited by Charles Malherbe and Felix Weingartner
• Kassel: Bärenreiter, 2000, BA 5460, as part of New Berlioz Edition (1967–2005), Volume 20, edited by Diana Bickley