Coriolanus-Ouvertüre

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Titel	Coriolanus-Ouvertüre
Titelzusatz	Overture from "Coriolan"
Spieldauer	00:03:45
Urheber/innen	Beethoven, Ludwig van [Komponist/in] [GND]
Mitwirkende	Kabasta, Oswald [Dirigent] [GND] Münchner Philharmoniker [Orchester] Electrola [Label] Electrola Gesellschaft m. b. H. [Produzent]
Datum	1941.05.01 [Aufnahmedatum]
Ort	Wien, Altes Burgtheater [Ortsbezug]
Schlagworte	Musik ; E-Musik ; Instrumentalmusik - Ouvertüre ; Besetzung - Orchester ; Publizierte und vervielfältigte Aufnahme
Örtliche Einordnung	Wien
	19. Jahrhundert
Typ	audio
Format	SCS [Schallplatte, Schellack]
Nummern	D.B. 5636 [Bestellnummer] 2 RA 5006 [Katalognummer] 2 RA 5006 2 □ [Matrizennummer]
Sprache	Englisch
Signatur	Österreichische Mediathek, 2-17014_a_b01_k02
Medienart	Mp3-Audiodatei

Standort des ehemaligen Burgtheaters. Bild: CC BY-SA 3.0 AT. Österreichische Mediathek 2020.

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By the time Beethoven composed the overture to Heinrich Joseph von Collinäs “Coriolan” in early 1807, the play had already disappeared from theatre programmes, having first been performed back in 1802. It is not clear from the historical record whether Beethoven’s work was ever performed together with Collin’s tragedy, and the overture tends to be seen as a self-contained concert piece. Beethoven himself conducted it in a number of performances, including at a charity concert held in now-defunct old Burgtheater in 1808. Despite this, the inner conflict experienced by Commander Coriolanus in the original play, as he veers from deliberate thinking to fits of temper and oscillates between determination and doubt, certainly does come across in Beethoven’s music. After a portentous beginning, the driving main theme abruptly breaks off on multiple occasions, reflecting the main character’s inner turmoil.

Oswald Kabasta (1876–1946) recorded the overture on 1 May 1941 with the Munich Philharmonic, where he had been director of music since 1938. As a conductor, he was particularly committed to performing works according to their original scores. A member of the Nazi Party, Kabasta was dismissed from the Munich Philharmonic in 1945 and banned from practising his profession by the Allied occupation authorities. He committed suicide shortly afterwards.
(Constanze Köhn)

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Musik ; E-Musik , Instrumentalmusik - Ouvertüre , Besetzung - Orchester , Publizierte und vervielfältigte Aufnahme

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