Kunihild (Kistler, Cyrill)

Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's	3 acts
Composition Year	1881-1883
Genre Categories	Operas; Theatrical 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; For orchestra (arr); Scores featuring the orchestra (arr); For piano (arr); For 1 player (arr); Scores featuring the piano (arr)

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Arranger	Charles J. Roberts (1868-1957)
Publisher. Info.	Carl Fischer Theatre Orchestra Edition, No.1817 New York: Carl Fischer, 1917. Plate 19864-20.
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Arranger	composer (?)
Publisher. Info.	Neue Musik-Zeitung, 1894, No.18. Stuttgart/Leipzig: Carl Grüninger, 1894. Plate C.G. 94.
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Publisher. Info.	Munich: Chr. Werner, n.d.(ca.1884?).
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Work Title	Kunihild
Alternative. Title	Kunihild und Der Brautritt auf Kynast ; Operndichtung. "Kunihild and the bride-ride on Kynast, an opera-poem in three acts."
Composer	Kistler, Cyrill
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No.	ICK 15
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's	3 acts
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp.	1881-1883
First Performance.	1884-03-20 — Sondershausen, Hoftheater
First Publication.	1884 – Leipzig: Fritzsch
Librettist	Ferdinand Sporck (1848–1928)
Language	German
Dedication	Herrn Carl Schröder, Hofcapellmeister in Sondershausen, gewidmet
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period	Romantic
Piece Style	Romantic
Instrumentation	Vocal soloists, mixed chorus, orchestra
Manuscript Sources	D-SHm C65:1 (this - 4 pages of the published score* of the 3rd act prelude - is inscribed by the composer to Julius Schreck.) Scoring of the excerpt of the prelude given by RISM as "vl (2), vla, vlc, cb, fl (2), ob (2), cl (2), fag (2), cor (4), tr (2), trb (3), timp". Fleisher also gives the scoring of the prelude - based on their copy of the Carl Simon published full score (Monatsbericht (1895), p.346) from a copy held or once held by the Philadelphia Orchestra - as 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, strings.
External Links	Fleisher

Prelude to act 3 also arranged for piano and flute (Monatsbericht (1897), p.106. Libretto published by Fritsch, Monatsbericht (1884), p.290.)

Given again, in Würzburg in March 1894. (Since?)

Dedicatee, Carl Schröder II, was Hofcapellmeister in Sondershausen from 1881 on according to Wikipedia.