Lélio or Le return à la vie

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Lélio ou Le retour à la vie (German: Lélio or the return to life , Op. 14b) is a work whose music and spoken text are by Hector Berlioz and which is conceived as a continuation of his Symphonie fantastique . It is written for a narrator, a tenor and a baritone (solo parts), concert piano, choir and orchestra.

Origin, premiere and reception

Lélio - piano as an orchestral part

Lélio composed Berlioz in Italy in 1831, often including previously composed music - for example that for the Rome price. The work was performed on December 9, 1832 at the Conservatoire de Paris as Le Retour à la vie and is structured as a mélolog (a kind of melodrama or monodrama for an actor with interpolated musical numbers) including six very different musical parts.

In 1855, at the request of Franz Liszt , Lélio was revised for a performance at the Weimar Court Theater (translation: Peter Cornelius ) and published the following year. Felix von Weingartner edited the score in the Berlioz Complete Edition .

construction

  1. Le pêcheur. Ballade - using a translation of the ballad Der Fischer von Goethe .
  2. Chœur d'ombres - Une évocation de l'atmosphère fantomatique d ' Hamlet de Shakespeare (an evocation of the sphere of Hamlet by Shakespeare , whereby the piece takes up Berlioz's cantata La mort de Cléopâtre for the Rome price ).
  3. Chanson de brigands - a description of the freedoms of the robber gangs in Calabria .
  4. Chant de bonheur - souvenirs - the music used Berlioz's cantata for the Rome price La mort d'Orphée (1827).
  5. La harpe éolienne , for orchestra - the music in turn processes the cantata for the Rome price La mort d'Orphée .
  6. Fantaisie sur la "Tempête" de Shakespeare - scene for orchestra and choirs, sung in Italian, based on Shakespeare's The Tempest .

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