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| A | alto |
| a-trb | alto trombone |
| a-vla | alto viola |
| arp | harp |
| B | bass (vocal) |
| b | bass (instrumental) |
| b-trb | bass trombone |
| b.fig | bass, figured |
| Bariton | baritone |
| bass | Thorough-bass |
| bc | thorough-bass (figured) |
| bombarde | bombardon |
| brasses | brasses |
| cb | double-bass |
| cemb | cembalo |
| cemb 4hands | cembalo fourhanded |
| chalumeau | shawm |
| choir book | choir book |
| cl | clarinet |
| clav | clavecin |
| clno | clarino |
| cnto | cornetto |
| Contra-A | contralto |
| contra-fag | double bassoon |
| cor | horn |
| cor di bassetto | basset horn |
| cor inglese | cor anglais |
| Coro | choir |
| Dessus | soprano (vocal) |
| dessus | soprano (instrumental) |
| fag | bassoon |
| fl | flute |
| fl.picc | piccolofuvola |
| guit | guitar |
| hautecontre | alto instrument |
| hpcd | harpsichord |
| i | instrumental part |
| iSol | solo instrument |
| keyb | keyboard instruments |
| Kornetto | cornet |
| lute | lute |
| Mezzo-S | mezzo-soprano |
| ob | oboe |
| ob d'amore* | oboe de amor |
| orch | orchestra |
| org | organ |
| org 4hands | organ (four-handed) |
| pf | pianoforte |
| pf 4hands | pianoforte (four-handed) |
| plck | plucked instrument(s) |
| recorder | block flute |
| S | soprano |
| Sprechstimme | speech voice |
| stck | percussion |
| strings | strings |
| T | tenor |
| t-trb | tenor trombone |
| taille | tenor part |
| theorbe | theorbo |
| timp | timpano(s) |
| tr | trumpet |
| trb | trombone |
| Treble | highest voice within sentence |
| treble | treble-highest instrumental voice |
| V | (vocal) voice |
| V 5 | 5th voice |
| Vag | additional voice |
| violetta | violetta |
| vl | violin |
| vla | viol(a) |
| vla d'amore* | viola d`amore |
| vla da gamba | viola da gamba |
| vlc | violoncello |
| vlne | violone |
| VSol | vocal solo part(s) |
| winds | wind players |
| woodwinds | woodwinds |
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Wieprecht, Wilhelm Friedrich
Die große Völkerschlacht bei Leipzig in Eb major
Work information
Scoring Note: orch (3)
Genre: Battle music (instr.), Symphonic poems
Source description
Original title: [cover title orch 2, score:] Die grosse | Völker=Schlacht bei Leipzig | (am 18ten und 19ten October 1813 | Ein Tongemälde für drei verschiedene Orchesters [!] | componirt von | W. Wieprecht | Partitur des IIten Orchesters bezeichnend | die Kriegsheere der Verbündeten. | [cover title printed, score orch 2 and 3:] Grosse | Völkerschlacht bei Leipzig. | Militairisches Tongemälde | zur 50jährigen Erinnerung an dieselbe, für drei ver- | schiedene Militair-Orchester, componirt von | W. Wieprecht. | Erstes Orchester: dramatique. | Zweites Orchester: die Heere der Verbündeten mar- | kirend. |
Material:
- 2 scores: 47, 31f.
Autograph: 1863 (1863);
- short score (particella)
Autograph: 1863; 25,5 x 33,5 cm
- 89 parts: 7, 5, 7, 5, 7, 5, 7, 5, 6, 6, 8, 7, 7, 6, 7, 7, 7, 6, 9, 9, 9, 9, 6, 8, 9, 9, 9, 9, 7, 7, 7, 8, 8, 9, 9, 9, 7, 8, 5, 8, 5, 5, 7, 5, 7, 6, 6, 5, 6, 7, 5, 7, 5, 5, 7, 7, 5, 6, 6, 5, 5, 4, 8, 5, 8, 8, 6, 6, 8, 8, 6, 6, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 6, 6, 9, 9, 6, 8, 6, 6, 7, 8, 8, 8, 3 — orch 1: fl 1 (2x), fl 2 (2x), ob 1 (2x), ob 2 (2x), kleine cl, mittlere cl 1, 2, große cl 1, 2, cl 1 in B (9x), cl 2 in B (8x), cl in As, cl in Es 1, 2, fag (4x), orch 1: cor 1 (2x), cor 2 (2x), tr 1 (2x), tr 2 (2x), tr 3 (2x), tr 4 (2x), t-trb 1 (2x), t-trb 2 (2x), b-trb 1 (2x), b-trb 2 (2x), orch 1: fl.picc, tamb (2x), gran cassa and piatti and tamtam and campana, gran cassa and piatti, tambour (2x), s-kornetto 1 (2x), s-kornetto 2 (2x), a-kornetto 1 (2x), a-kornetto 2 (2x), bariton, orch 1: contra-fag (5x), t-cor 1 (2x), t-cor 2 (2x), tb solo, bariton-tb, b-tb (5x)
Manuscript: 1863-1899; 32,5 x 27 cm
- 23 parts: 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 4, 4, 3, 3, 4, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 6, 5, 5, 6, 3, 3 — orch 2: tr 1, 2, 3, 4, tb 1, tb 2 (2x), tamburino, gran cassa and piatti, ratsche, kanonade, kornetto in Es, s-kornetto 1 (2x), s-kornetto 2 (2x), a-kornetto 1, 2, t-cor 1, 2, bariton, signal-cor, orch 2: signal-tr
Manuscript: 1863; 32,5 x 27 cm
- 22 parts: 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 2, 3, 2f. — orch 3: cl 1, 2, 3, 4, orch 3: cor 1, 2, tr 1, 2, 3, 4, orch 3: fl.picc 1, 2, tamburino, gran cassa and piatti, t-cor 1, 2, bariton, tb 1, 2, ratsche, kanonade, signal-tr
Manuscript: 1863; 32,5 x 27 cm
Incipits
Further notes
Scoring: orch (3)
Performer: Gründel — Peschel
Notes: Alte Signaturen in Blaustift auf dem Einbandetikett der Partitur vom 3. Orchester
Stimmen vom 1. Orchester von Wieprecht und anderen Schreibern; Stimmen vom 2.und 3. Orchester von Wieprecht
Den beiden Partituren ist jeweils das gedruckte Programm des Tongemäldes vorgeklebt
Schreiberdatum: "Königsberg. / den 25.7.99." (cl 2 in Bb)
Interpretennamen, wie sie aus einer cor 2-Stimme hervorgehen: "[Blei:] Gründel, Peschel / Regiment N. 11 / Geblasen den 26ten August 1863. / [crossed out:] Lerne erst schreiben alter Dussel."
Provenance
Olim: 2144, 146
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Musikabteilung, Berlin D-B
(D-B/ Mus.ms. 23104)
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