Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)

Matinées Musicales (1941)

second suite in five movements after Rossini, for orchestra


arrangement

  • General information
    • Composition date: 1941
    • Duration: 13 mn
    • Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes
    • Opus: 54
    • Commission: Lincoln Kirstein, Soirées Musicales de 1936, avec une chorégraphie de Georges Balanchine pour l'American Ballet Compagny (production 1941)
    • Dedication: 'To Lincoln Kirstein'
Detailed formation
  • 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns [ou 4] , 2 trumpets, 3 trombones [ou 2] , 1 tuba [ou 0] , 2 percussionists, 1 timpani, 1 harp [ou piano] , 1 celesta [ad lib. ou piano] , strings

Premiere information

Table of contents

  1. March
  2. Nocturne
  3. Waltz
  4. Pantomime
  5. Moto perpetuo (Solfeggi e Gorgheggi)