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Giacomo Meyerbeer - 'Alimelek, oder Die beiden Kalifen' (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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Giacomo Meyerbeer - 'Alimelek, oder Die beiden Kalifen' (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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The subject-matter of Meyerbeer's second opera Wirt und Gast, or
Aus Scherz Ernst (also called Alimelek), written in Munich in 1812,
was taken from a tale in The Arabian Nights. The story of the man
who would be sovereign, if only for one day, so frequently treated
in the literature of all nations. The opera is an example of the
Oriental or "Turkish" operas which were so popular in Germany
during the second third of the eighteenth century. The orchestra
includes, besides the strings, doubled wood-wind, and threefold
percussion, only two horns, two trumpets, and one trombone. While
Meyerbeer's contemporaries were puzzled by the far-fetched
singularity of the Alimelik music, and the work had no success in
Stuttgart and Vienna (6 January 1813; 20 October 1814), Weber had
the insight to recognize its true significance. He produced it
Prague on 20 October 1815, and praised the "active, alert
imagination, the well-nigh voluptuous melody, the correct
declamation, the entire musical attitude." He was also impressed by
the instrumentation: "It is surprisingly combined, interwoven with
great delicacy, and consequently demands almost the care of a
quartet performance." Weber's enduring admiration meant that he
again produced the work in Dresden years later (1820), when he
pointed out how this early opera "bears witness to the composer's
singular emotional capacity."This facsimile edition contains the
composer's entire conception of the work, restoring material cut
from the first performance. Meyerbeer shows astonishing maturity
for a composer of twenty-one. Not only the psychic state of the
leading characters, but also the conflict of the entire plot, is
presented in concentrated style by the aid of recurrent themes.
"The specifically romantico-psychological modification of the
leading-motive is met with here for the first time, i.e., two years
before Wagner's birth" (Edgar Istel).
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