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Composers inspired by Shakespeare A-G
Adam, Adolphe-Charles. (1803-1856) Falstaff,
opera, 1856
[http://utenti.lycos.it/sicla99/id24.htm]
Aljabiev, Aleksandr (1787-1851) Burya
(Tempest), opera, 1835; Volchebnaia
notch (Midsummer
Night's Dream), opera
[http://utenti.lycos.it/sicla99/id24.htm]
Andreozzi, Gaetano, (Jommellino) (1755-1826).
Giovanna
D'Arco;
Amleto,
opera, 1792, libretto G.Foppa.
[http://utenti.lycos.it/sicla99/id24.htm]
Apolinar, Danny. Your
Own Thing Music
& lyrics by Danny Apolinar & Hal Hester: Book by
Donald Driver, inspired by Twelfth Night by William
Shakespeare. Orpheum Theatre, Off-Broadway 13 January, 1968
(937 perfs)
[http://www.nodanw.com/shows_y/your_own_thing.htm] /
listen to samples
Argento, Dominick. (b. 1927) Christopher
Sly. Opera.
(1963) [http://www.hapka.com/usopera/composers/argento/]
Arundell, Dennis (1898-1988) Midsummer
Night's Dream,
opera, 1930.
[http://utenti.lycos.it/sicla99/id24.htm]
Aspelmayr, Franz (1728-1786) Macbeth,
opera, 1777: Der
Sturm, opera,
1782; [http://utenti.lycos.it/sicla99/id24.htm]
Attenberg,
Kurt (1887-1974) Stormen,
1948
[http://www.operone.de/komponist/atterberg.html]
Ayres, Frederic
(1876-1926) Songs:
see
[http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/s/shakespeare/]
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Balfe, Michael William (1808-1870) . Joan
of Arc,
opera (1837), Falstaff.
(1838) [http://utenti.lycos.it/sicla99/id24.htm]
Banister, John (1625-1679) Songs:
see
[http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/s/shakespeare/]
Barber, Samuel (and Franco Zeffirelli)
Antony
and Cleopatra,
opera in 3 acts, 1966.
[http://utenti.lycos.it/sicla99/id24.htm]
Barbieri, Carlo Emanuele (1822-1867) Perdita
(Winter's Tale),
opera, 1865
[http://utenti.lycos.it/sicla99/id24.htm]
Barton, Gerald. Songs:
see
[http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/s/shakespeare/]
Beach, Amy Marcy Cheney (1867-1944) Songs:
see
[http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/s/shakespeare/]
Beethoven, Coriolanus,
op. 62
ouverture; conductor: Willem Mengelberg, 6'20 min.
[http://moments-of-history.lbb.bw.schule.de/html/1922_2.html]
Beethoven, Ludwig van: Klaviersonate
op. 17, D minor
("Tempest")
[http://gibbonsmusic.hypermart.net/teach/guideto.htm]
Bellini, Vincenzo (1801-1835). I
Capuletti e I Montecchi,
opera, 1865, libretto by Felice Romani, in Italian and
Spanish, discography
[http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/Choir/7652/capuletos/capuletos.htm]
Benda, Antonin (1722-1795) Romeo
und Julie,
Singspiel, 1776.
[http://utenti.lycos.it/sicla99/id24.htm]
Benvenuti, Tommaso (1838-1906) Guglielmo
Shakespeare,
opera 1895
[http://utenti.lycos.it/sicla99/id24.htm]
Bereny, Winter's
Tale 1898
[http://utenti.lycos.it/sicla99/id24.htm]
Berio, Luciano. (1925-) Un
Re in ascolto
azione musicale (1981-1983) libretto: Italo Calvino
[http://www.jpc-klassik.de/8324669.htm],[http://www.gf-kuehn.de/featmemo.htm]
Berlioz, Hector (1803-1869). Béatrice
et Bénédict;
libretto in French and Spanish, discography.
[http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/Choir/7652/beatriz/beatriz.htm];
French
only
[http://www.intac.com/~rfrone/operas/libretti/beatrice.htm]
; also at: Beatrice
et Benedict [http://infopuq.uquebec.ca/~uss1010/catal/berlioz/berhopera2.html#Béatrice]
Berlioz, Hector. Les
nuits d'été,
Song Cycle, op. 7, words by Théophile Gautier. text:
[http://php.indiana.edu/~lneff/libretti/nuitsdet.html]
(May 2002)
Berlioz, Hector Fantaisie
dramatique sur La Tempête de Shakespeare:
Miranda,
H 52, H55),
Berlioz,
Hector
Lélio,
ou le Retour à la vie
mélodrame lyrique; paroles et musique de Hector
Berlioz; op. 14b. Text in French:
[http://www.karadar.com/Librettos/berlioz_lelio.html]
Berlioz, Hector. Romeo
et Juliette,
symphonie dramatique, H79,
[http://infopuq.uquebec.ca/~uss1010/catal/berlioz/berhcatinstr.html]
Berlioz, Hector. Romeo et Juliette, ballet. chor. M.
Bejart, Ballet of the 20th Century,
1999;[http://balletarchive.org/ballets/ballet.cfm?ballet_ID=216]
(7/9/00; dead May 2002)
Berlioz, Hector. Le
Roi Lear,
ouverture, H53,
[http://infopuq.uquebec.ca/~uss1010/catal/berlioz/berhcatinstr.html]
Berlioz, Hector
(1803-1869): Beginning of act V (The moon shines bright...)
in Les
Troyens,
1863, 1890
[http://www.operone.de/komponist/berlioz.html]
Bernstein, Leonard West
Side Story: the
musical, the film
[http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/albm28.html]
Bernstein, Leonard. West Side Story Suite, ballet.
New York 1995, chor. Jerome Robbins
[http://balletarchive.org/ballets/ballet.cfm?ballet_ID=292]
(7/9/00; dead May 2002)
Bibalo, Antonio (1922- ) Macbeth,
opera, 1990.
[http://www.operone.de/komponist/bibalo.html]
Bishop, Henry Rowley (1786-1855) Comedy
of Errors,
opera, 1819
[http://utenti.lycos.it/sicla99/id24.htm]
Blacher, Boris (1903-1975) Romeo
und Julia,
opera, 1945
[http://www.karadar.it/Works/blacher.html]
Blacher, Boris (1903-1975) Hamlet,
ballet; Der
Mohr von Venedig,
ballet
[http://www.karadar.it/Works/blacher.html]
Bliss, Arthur (1891-1975). The Tempest
ouverture
and incidental music.
[http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/s/shakespeare/tempest_overture.html]
Bloch, Ernst. Macbeth,
opera, 1910
[http://utenti.lycos.it/sicla99/id24.htm]
Blow, John. Venus
and Adonis,
1682. Libretto, anon.
[http://php.indiana.edu/~lneff/libretti/venus.html]
Boesmans, Philippe. (b.1936) Wintermärchen.
[http://www.20-21.dgclassics.com/boesmans.html]
(opéra de Lyon, dir. Luc Bondy, with the Belgian Jazz
Rock Band AKA MOON) review.
[http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~marlenn/TWT%20Opera.htm]
Braham, John (1774-1856) The
Taming of the Shrew,
opera, 1828
[http://utenti.lycos.it/sicla99/id24.htm]
Brahms, Johannes. (1833-1897) Lied
von Shakespeare,
op. 17
[http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/brahms_works.html]
Brahms, Johannes
(1833-1897). Ophelia-Lieder,
WoO posth. 22 (1873) Hamlet IV.5.;
[http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/b/brahms.html] (May
2002)
Britten, Benjamin. Midsummer
Night's Dream,
1960 (Libretto in English and Spanish, discography)
[http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/Choir/7652/sueno/sueno.htm]
Britten, Benjamin incidental
music
[http://www.musicweb.f9.co.uk/music/britten/rob6.htm]
Bruch, Max (1838-1920) Hermione
(Midsummer Night's Dream), opera, 1872
[http://utenti.lycos.it/sicla99/id24.htm]
Brumby, Colin. The
Phoenix and the Turtle
[http://members.optushome.com.au/sydneymandolins/PhoenixandtheTurtle.html]
Bush, Geoffrey. Songs:
see
[http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/s/shakespeare/]
Byrd, William.(c.1539-1623) homepage:
biography, discography
[http://www.stainer.co.uk/byrd.html]
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Canepa, Luigi (1849-1914) Riccardo
III, opera, 1879
[http://utenti.lycos.it/sicla99/id24.htm]
Caruso, Luigi (1754-1822) Amleto,
opera, 1789 La
Tempesta,
opera,1789
[http://utenti.lycos.it/sicla99/id24.htm]
Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Mario (1895-1968)
Il
Mercante di Venezia,
opera, 1958; All's
well that ends well,
opera, 1959
[http://utenti.lycos.it/sicla99/id24.htm]
Chausson, Ernest Amédée (1855-1899)
Songs:
see
[http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/s/shakespeare/]
Chélard, Hyppolite (1789-1861)
Macbeth,
opera, 1827 (libretto Rouget de Lisle)
[http://utenti.lycos.it/sicla99/id24.htm]
Chisholm, Erik. Crabbed
age and youth.
[http://www.erikchisholm.com/pages/choral.html] (May
2002)
Clarke, Rebecca (1886-1979) Songs:
see
[http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/s/shakespeare/]
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Dalayrac, Nicolas (1753-1809) Roméo
et Juliette ou Tout pour l'amour,
opera, 1792
[http://utenti.lycos.it/sicla99/id24.htm]
Dale, Benjamin (1885-1943) Songs:
see
[http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/s/shakespeare/]
Davies, Peter Maxwell Shakespeare Music (for
instrumental ensemble) Commissioned by the BBC for the 400th
anniversary of William Shakespeare's birth, 1964. Reviews
and sound samples.
[http://www.maxopus.com/works/shakespe.htm]
Debussy, Claude: La
Romance d'Ariel,
1884.
[http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/debussy_works_song.html]
Deffès,
Pierre Louis (1819-1900), Jessica
(other titles: Le Marchand de Venise, Shylock, La Fille
de Shylock) Opéra, 1898 Toulouse
[http://www.operone.de/komponist/deffes.html] (May
2003)
Delius,
Frederick. (1862-1934) Romeo and Juliet, ballet.
1943, chor. Antony Tudor, Met NY
[http://balletarchive.org/ballets/ballet.cfm?ballet_ID=210]
(7/9/00; dead May 2002)
Delius, Frederick. A
Village Romeo and Juliet (Romeo und Julia auf dem
Dorfe),
opera, 1901
[http://www.operone.de/komponist/delius.html]
Dello Joio, Norman. (b. 1914) The
Triumph of St. Joan,
opera (1950, rev. 1959); The Trial at Rouen, opera
(1956) [http://www.hapka.com/usopera/composers/dellojoio/]
Ditters von Dittersdorf, Karl.
Die
lustigen Weiber von Windsor,
opera (1796)
[http://utenti.lycos.it/sicla99/id24.htm]
Dowland, John (1563-1626) short biography
[http://www.hnh.com/composer/dowland.htm]
Draghi, G. B. dance music for
Dryden/Davenant/Shadwell's Tempest. (available
at
Poor Yorick)
Dring, Madeleine (1923-1977) Songs:
see
[http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/s/shakespeare/]
Dring, Madeleine (1923-1977) Crabbed
age and youth, song.
[http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/s/shakespeare/age.html]
(May 2002)
Dvorak, Antonin. (1841-1904) Othello,
ouverture, op. 93. 1891.
[http://www.americansymphony.org/dialogues_extensions/93_94season/1st_concert/dvorak.cfm]
(May 2002)
Dvorak,
Antonin. (1841-1904) Othello,
ouverture, op. 93. 1891.
[http://www.karadar.com/Dictionary/dvorak.html]
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Eisler, Hanns. (1898-1962), Songs:
see
[http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/s/shakespeare/]
Elgar, Edgar. (1857-1934) Falstaff,
symphonic study (1913)
[http://www.elgar.org/3falst.htm] available at:
[http://www.klassik-nachschlagewerk.de/falstaff_op_68_8824664.htm]
(Sept. 2001)
Ellington, Duke. Timon
of Athens suite
[http://hsb.baylor.edu/html/vanauken/Duke.html] used
in RSC
production:
[http://www.rsc.org.uk/press/releases/duke.htm]
Duke Ellington. Play
On! A musical
based on Twelfth Night with songs by Duke Ellington
[http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/shows/playon.html]
(May 2002)
Duke Ellington. Play
On!
[http://centerstage.net/theatre/reviews/playon.html]
(May 2002)
Play on!
(musical, Duke Ellington) Broadway
1996-97
Michael Kuchwara, Discussion of the Broadway
production of Play On!
Duke Ellington
Such Sweet Thunder series of musical portraits of
Shakespeare characters: Cleopatra, Caesar, Lady Mac,
Othello, Kate, Romeo and Juliet, (listen to samples
here
or here)
Emmert,
Adam Joseph. (1765-1812) Der
Sturm (1806)
[http://www.operone.de/komponist/emmert.html]
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Fabrizi, Vincenzo (1764-1797) La
Tempesta ossia Da un disordine nasce un
ordine, opera
buffa,
1788.[http://utenti.lycos.it/sicla99/id24.htm]
Farrar, Ernest (1885-1918) Songs:
see
[http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/s/shakespeare/]
Fibich,
Zdenek (1850-1900) Boure
/Der Sturm
(1895)
[http://www.operone.de/komponist/fibich.html]
Finzi, Gerald
(1901-1956) Songs:
see
[http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/s/shakespeare/]
Fleischmann, Johann Friedrich Anton (1766-1798)
Die
Geisterinsel,
Singspiel 1796 (Tempest)
[http://utenti.lycos.it/sicla99/id24.htm]
Fonsecca,
Fernando: Two Gentlemen of Verona, Musical, MS 1984
?
Fonteyn Manney, Charles (1872-1951) Songs:
see
[http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/s/shakespeare/]
Foote, Arthur. Songs:
see
[http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/s/shakespeare/]
Frezza,
Christina, Two
Gentlemen of Verona
(PDF-file) Operette 1987 (Oct. 2001)
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Gabriel, Virginia (1825-1877) Songs:
see
[http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/s/shakespeare/]
German, Edward (1862-1936) Songs:
see
[http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/s/shakespeare/]
Giannini. Vittorio (1903-1966) The
Taming of the Shrew,
opera,
1953[http://utenti.lycos.it/sicla99/id24.htm]
Glass,
Philip. Hamlet
chor. Stephen Mills (prem. Oct. 2000, Austin, Texas)
production notes etc.
[http://www.balletmet.org/Notes/Hamlet.html]
(May 2002)
Gobatti, Stefano (1852-1913) Re
Lear, opera,
1881 [http://utenti.lycos.it/sicla99/id24.htm]
Goetz, Hermann Gustav (1840-1876) Der
Widerspenstigen Zähmung,
opera, 1847. Libretto Joseph Viktor Widmann.
[http://utenti.lycos.it/sicla99/id24.htm]
Gounod, Charles, Romeo
et Juliette,
libretto (Jules Barbier)
[http://php.indiana.edu/~lneff/libretti/romeo.htm]
Gounod, Charles Roméo
et Juliette,
Opéra en cinq actes; Livret de Jules Barbier et
Michel Carré; libretto in French
[http://www.intac.com/~rfrone/operas/sfo/operas-QR/Romeo_et_Juliette_Gounod.htm]
(May 2002)
Grainger, Percy (1882-196?) Songs:
see
[http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/s/shakespeare/]
Grönemeyer,
Herbert: Bühnenmusik zum Kaufmann von Venedig,
1979 (incidental music) Biography
[http://www.rasscass.com/templ/te_bio.php?PID=540&RID=1]
Gruenberg, Louis.
(1884-1964) Antony
and Cleopatra.,
opera, 1955/61. [http://www.hapka.com/usopera/composers/gruenberg/]
Guglielmi, Pietro Carlo (1763-1817) Romeo
e Giulietta,
opera, 1801
[http://utenti.lycos.it/sicla99/id24.htm]
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