Les Huguenots (Meyerbeer, Giacomo)

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

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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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