Les Huguenots (Meyerbeer, Giacomo)

Title Les Huguenots
Alternative title Opéra en cinq actes
Creators Giacomo Meyerbeer, composer
Eugène Scribe, librettist
Émile Deschamps, librettist
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Instrumentation voices, mixed chorus and orchestra
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Composed 1836
First published 1836
Dedication —
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Average duration (sec) 180
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Composition types Grand operas
Language French
Period Romantic
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Arrangements

Details Section Arranged for Arranger
View Selections violin and piano —
View Selections piano 4 hands Max Schultze
View Selections piano Max Schultze
View Selections piano —
View Romance: Ah! quel spectacle enchanteur (Act 1) horn and piano Louis Michiels
View Choral Protestant piano Charles Kunkel
View Cavatina: Une dame noble et sage (Act I) voice and guitar Edward Pique
View Ballabile harp Elias Parish-Alvars
View D'un sacro zel l'ardore harp Elias Parish-Alvars
View No, caso egual giammai scommetto harp and piano John Balsir Chatterton

Scores

Details Section Type Publisher Date File (click to view)
View Complete — Schlesinger 1836 Complete Score
View Complete — Schlesinger 1836 Volume 1 (Acts I, II)
Volume 2 (Act III to V)
View Complete — Ricordi — Banda Score (Act III No.23, Act V No.29)
View Complete — Ricordi — Foglietto
View Complete parts Ricordi — Piccolo
Flute 1/2
Oboe 1/2/English Horn
Clarinet 1/2
Bassoon 1/2
Horn 1/2
Horn 3/4
Trumpet 1/2
Cornet 1/2
Trombone 1/2
Trombone 3/Bass Trombone
Timpani
Snare Drum
Bass Drum
Tambourine
Triangle
Bells
Snare Drum (onstage, Act III Nos.22-23)
Harp 1
Harp 2
Violins I
Violins II
Violas
Cellos/Basses
View Complete parts Ricordi — Sopranos
Tenors/Basses
View Overture and Orgie parts Paris: Schlesinger — Cover
Flute 1/2, Piccolo
Oboe 1, 2/English horn
Clarinet 1/2 (B/C)
Bassoon 1/2
Horn 1/2 (E-G), 3/4 (B-C)
Trumpet 1/2 (E-C), 3/4 (B-A)
Trombone 1/2, 3/Ophicleide
Timpani
Bass Drum
Violins I (violin-conductor)
Violins II
Violas
Cellos/Basses
View Complete vocal score — — Preliminaries, Act I, Act II
Act III, Act IV, Act V, Appendix
View Complete vocal score London: R. Addison — Segment 1 (pp.1-92)
Segment 2 (pp.93-192)
Segment 3 (pp.193-292)
Segment 4 (pp.293-385)
View Complete vocal score — — Act I
Act II
Act III
Act IV
Act V
View Complete vocal score — — Act I, II
Act III, IV, V
Color Cover
View Complete vocal score Gutheil 1888 Complete Score
View Complete selections,vocal score John W. Burke — The Vale of Rest / Giovin belta su questa riva (Act II, No.8)
View Complete selections,vocal score Holograph manuscript 1836 Air: Parmi les pleurs (Act IV)
View Complete — — — Complete Libretto
View Complete — New York: Fred Rullman — Complete Libretto
Color Cover
View Complete Arrangement for violin and piano; selections — — Complete Score
View Complete Arrangement for piano 4 hands
by Max Schultze
; selections
— — Complete Score
View Complete Arrangement for piano
by Max Schultze
; selections
— — Overture
View Complete Arrangement for piano; selections Breitkopf und Härtel — Complete Score
View Romance: Ah! quel spectacle enchanteur (Act 1) Arrangement for horn and piano
by Louis Michiels
— — Complete Score
View Choral Protestant Arrangement for piano
by Charles Kunkel
Kunkel Brothers 1880 Complete Score
View Cavatina: Une dame noble et sage (Act I) Arrangement for voice and guitar
by Edward Pique
Philadelphia: C[harles].F. Hupfeld — Complete Score
View Ballabile Arrangement for harp
by Elias Parish-Alvars
Schott — Complete Score
View D'un sacro zel l'ardore Arrangement for harp
by Elias Parish-Alvars
Addison — Complete Score
View No, caso egual giammai scommetto Arrangement for harp and piano
by John Balsir Chatterton
R. Addison & Co. — Complete Score

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