Castor et Pollux, RCT 32 (Rameau, Jean-Philippe)

Title Castor et Pollux
Creators Jean-Philippe Rameau, composer
Pierre-Joseph Bernard, librettist
Opus RCT 32
Instrumentation voices, mixed chorus and orchestra
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Composed 1737
First published 1737
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Composition types Tragedies en musique
Language French
Period Baroque
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Arrangements

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View Selections (Fragments disposes en suite d'orchestre) cello and piano Charles Vogel
Henri Guérout
View Gavotte violin and piano Adolf Grünwald
Otto Standke
View Gavotte piano 4 hands Louis Winkler
View Menuet violin and piano —

Scores

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View Complete — — — Complete Score
Complete Score
View Complete — Boivin — Complete Score
View Complete — Paris: Chez l'Auteur — Complete Score
View Complete — — — Prologue: Overture
Prologue: Scenes 1 and 2
Act I
Act II
Act III
Act IV
Act V, Scenes 1 to 4
Act V, Scenes 5 to 7
Appendix for Acts I to III
Appendix for Acts IV to V and Supplement
View Complete selections Manuscript 1737 Complete Score
View Chantons l'éclatante victoire — Manuscript — Complete Score
View Choeur — Manuscript — Complete Score
View Complete vocal score Durand 1903 Complete Score
View Complete selections,vocal score — — Complete Score
View Air de Télaïre (Act I, Sc.3) vocal score — — Complete Score
View Complete — Paris: De Lormel 1772 Complete Libretto
View Complete — Oil on canvas — Title-page
Title-page (detailed image)
View Selections (Fragments disposes en suite d'orchestre) Arrangement for cello and piano
by Charles Vogel
Henri Guérout

Litolff — Complete Score
Cello Part
View Gavotte Arrangement for violin and piano
by Adolf Grünwald
Otto Standke

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View Gavotte Arrangement for piano 4 hands
by Louis Winkler
— — Complete Score
View Menuet Arrangement for violin and piano Revista da Semana — Complete Score

Recordings/Performances

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View Synthesized Tristes apprets (Act I, Scene 3)


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