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composer: György Ligeti
author of original text: Michel de Ghelderode
arrangement: Elgar Howarth
English version: Geoffrey Skelton
German edition: Michael Meschke - György Ligeti

Three arias from the opera "Le Grand Macabre"

for coloratura soprano and piano arranged by Elgar Howarth

Instrumentation: coloratura soprano and piano
Publisher: Schott Music
Duration: 8' 0''
Year of composition: 1974/1977, rev. 1988
Difficulty: very difficult
Edition: Register: coloratura soprano
Language: English - German
30 Pages - Saddle stitching
ISMN: 979-0-001-12373-0
Order number: ED 8843

Price: 19.95 €
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I composed my opera Le Grand Macabre from 1974 to 1997. The Mysteries of the Macabre are arrangements of three coloratura arias of the chief of the “Secret Political Police” which have been arranged (beautifully!) for chamber ensemble by Elgar Howarth. My friend Howarth had conducted the world premiere of the opera in Stockholm in 1978 and some of the further productions. The half-nonsense text is an immediate – however more accurate – continuation of the idea of my works Aventures and Nouvelles Aventures, but there is no chromatics in the music any more.

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