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Tanzende Faune

Ein Orchesterspiel
Hardly known until recently, the early works of Carl Orff include the large-scale ‘orchestral play’ Tanzende Faune written by 1914 when he was 18. The title hints at Claude Debussy’s L’Après-midi d’un faune, and the piece is in fact closely related to the original with regard to its sound and its bacchanalian atmosphere. Orff himself called Tanzende Faune a ‘dance piece in disguise for the stage’.
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Tanzende Faune, a work written when Carl Orff was 18, is remarkably experimental and impressionistic, with its renunciation of low brass instruments and the use of two pianos, two harps and celesta in addition to a large string section, wood-wind instruments, horns and trumpets. The title is immediately reminiscent of Debussy’s L’Après-midi d’un faune, though the model is by no means referred to by compositional imitation but by the Bacchanalian atmosphere of the piece. Orff himself gave it the subtitle ‘Orchester-Spiel’ [orchestral play] and pointed out that Tanzende Faune was a ‘dance piece in disguise for the stage’.

Orchestral Cast

4 · 2 · Engl. Hr. · 3 · 3 - 4 · 2 · 0 · 0 - P. (2 Spieler) S. (Trgl. · Beck. · Tamt.) - 2 Hfn. · Cel. · Klav. (2 Spieler) - Str. (16 · 16 · 8 [mögl. 16] · 8 [mögl. 16] · 4)

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Title:
Tanzende Faune
Ein Orchesterspiel
Edition:
Performance material
Publisher/Label:
Schott Music
Year of composition:
1914
Opus:
op. 21
Duration:
10 ′0 ′′
World Premiere:
December 6, 1995 · München (D)
Gasteig, Philharmonie
Conductor: Andreas Sebastian Weiser · Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

Series:

Technical Details

Media Type:
Hire/performance material
Product number:
LS 3111-01
Manufacturer:
Schott Music GmbH & Co. KG
55116 Mainz
Germany

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    April 21, 2011 | München (Germany) , Prinzregententheater
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    December 6, 1995 | München (Germany) , Gasteig, Philharmonie — World Premiere
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