Overture (Bruckner)
| Overture | |
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| by Anton Bruckner | |
The composer, c. 1860
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| Key | G minor |
| Catalogue | WAB 98 |
| Composed | November 1862–22 January 1863: Linz |
| Performed | 8 September 1921: Klosterneuburg |
| Recorded | c. 1937 |
| Instrumental | Orchestra |
Anton Bruckner composed the Overture in G minor, WAB 98 in 1862–63, during his tuition by Otto Kitzler.
In the fall of 1862, when studying with Otto Kitzler in Linz, Bruckner composed his first orchestral compositions: the Four Orchestral Pieces (the March in D minor and the Three Pieces for orchestra). His next orchestral composition was an Overture in G minor, WAB 98.
A sketch of the Overture, which was started in November 1862, is found in the Kizler-Studienbuch pp. 287-301. A first version of the Overture was fulfilled on 24 December 1862. On 6 January 1863 Bruckner started with the composition of a new coda, which he fulfilled on 22 January 1863.
The original manuscript, of which sheet No. 7 (bars 188-212) is missing, is stored in the archive of the Kremsmünster Abbey. A copy of the complete score of the Overture was given by Bruckner to his friend Cyrill Hynais, together with that of Four Orchestral Pieces and the Symphony in F minor. These scores are stored in the archive of the Stadt- und Landesbibliothek of Vienna.
The work was first published by Alfred Orel in Unbekannte Frühwerke A. Bruckners, Vienna, 1921. The Overture was first performed by Franz Moißl on 8 September 1921 in Klosterneuburg.
The Ouvertüre in g-Moll (Overture in G minor), as well as its 1862 coda, are edited in Band XII/5 of the current Bruckner's Gesamtausgabe.
The orchestral setting is the same as that of the earlier March in D minor, except that the second flute is replaced by a piccolo.
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