William Ratcliff (Cui, César)

		Movements/Sections 15 Composition Year 1861-1868 Genre Categories Operas; Stage Works; For voices, mixed chorus, orchestra; Scores featuring the voice; Scores featuring mixed chorus; Scores featuring the orchestra; For voices and chorus with orchestra; Russian language; For orchestra (arr); For orchestra

Sheet Music

• Vocal Scores (16)
• Arrangements and Transcriptions (2)

Vocal Scores

 Title page and preliminaries
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 Introduction
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 Act I, Tableau 1, Scene 1a. Wedding Chorus and Blessing
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 Act I, Tableau 1, Scene 1b. Mary's Romance and Douglas' Narrative
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 Act 1, Tableau 1, Scene 2. MacGregor's Narrative
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 Act I, Tableau 2 (=Scene 3 of Act I)
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 Act II, Tableau 1, Scene 1. Entr'acte, Dances, and Chorus
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 Act II, Tableau 1, Scene 2. Scene with the Drunk
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 Act II, Tableau 1, Scene 3. Lesley's Song
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 Act II, Tableau 1, Scene 4. Ratcliff's Narrative
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 Act II, Tableau 2, Scene by the Black Stone
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 Entr'acte (to Act III)
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 Act III, Scene 1a. Mary's [2nd] Romance
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 Act III, Scene 1b. Margaret's Narrative
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 Act III, Scene 2. [Love] Duet
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 Act III, Last Scene
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Lyle Neff (2007/9/1)

Language:

Russian ; German

Publisher Info.:

Leipzig: Composer (engraved by C.G. Röder), 1869;
at some point acquired by Robert Seitz, later W. Bessel & Co.

Copyright:

Public Domain [tag/del]

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Arrangements and Transcriptions

Entr'acte (Act III)

For Orchestra (Rimsky-Korsakov)

 Complete score
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 Complete score
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Carolus (2010/9/7)

Arranger:

Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908)

Publisher Info.:

St. Petersburg: W. Bessel & Co., n.d. (ca.1899). Plate 4069.

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Public Domain [tag/del]

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Free Recordings

• No.1. Introduction -- Audio from MIDI (orchestration sequenced by Lyle Neff, based on piano-vocal score)

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General Information

Work Title	William Ratcliff
Alternative Title	Вилльям Ратклифф

Composer	Cui, César
Movements/Sections	15
Year/Date of Composition	1861-1868
First Performance	1869-02-26 – St. Petersburg, Maryinsky Theatre
First Publication	1869 (vocal score; full score remains unpublished)
Librettist	Composer, after Vasily Zhukovsky (1783–1852)'s translation of the tragedy by Heinrich Heine (1797–1856), with additional material by Viktor Krylov (1838–1906)
Language	Russian, with added German text; French later added to Mary's 2nd Romance
Piece Style	Romantic
Instrumentation	Voices with Orchestra

Misc. Comments

Section Listing

• No.1. Introduction

• Act I
  • Tableau 1.
    • No.2. Scene 1a. Wedding Chorus and Blessing
    • No.3. Scene 1b. Mary's Romance and Douglas' Narrative
    • No.4. Scene 2. MacGregor's Narrative

• • Tableau 2.
    • No.5. Scene 3 [of Act I].

• Act II
  • Tableau 1.
    • No.6. Scene 1. Entr'acte, Dances, and Chorus
    • No.7. Scene 2. Scene with the Drunk
    • No.8. Scene 3. Lesley's Song
    • No.9. Scene 4. Ratcliff's Narrative

• • Tableau 2.
    • No.10. Scene by the Black Stone.

• Act III
  • No.11. Entr'acte
  • No.12. Scene 1a. Mary's [2nd] Romance
  • No.13. Scene 1b. Margaret's Narrative
  • No.14. Scene 2. [Love] Duet
  • No.15. Last Scene

External Links

• Wikipedia article

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Operas by César Cui
Neuhausen Castle (1859, unfinished) Prisoner of the Caucasus (1857–58, rev. 1881–82, 1885) The Mandarin's Son (1859) William Ratcliff (1861–68) Mlada (1872, Act I only) Angelo (1871–75) Le flibustier (1888–89) The Saracen (1896–98) Feast in Time of Plague (1899~1900?)	Undina (1900–04?, unfinished) Mademoiselle Fifi (1902–03) The Snow Bogatyr (1905) Mateo Falcone (1906–07) The Captain's Daughter (1907–09) Little Red Riding-Hood (1911) Ivan the Fool (1913) Puss-in-Boots (1913)