Alberto Evaristo Ginastera (1916-1983)

Obertura para el Fausto Criollo (1943)

for orchestra
[Ouverture pour le Faust criollo]

  • General information
    • Composition date: 1943
    • Duration: 9 mn
    • Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes, et Barry
    • Opus: 9
    • Libretto (details, author):

      d’après le poème gauchesco Fausto de Estanislao del Campo

Detailed formation
  • 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, 5 percussionists, harp, piano, strings

Premiere information

  • Date: 12 May 1944
    Location:

    Chili, Santiago de Chile


    Performers:

    l'Orchestre symphonique du Chili, direction : Juan José Castro.

Observations

Prix national 1943