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Patrie
ouverture dramatique
op. 19
Composition: September – December 1873 (dated autograph) in response to a commission from Pasdeloup, who asked three composers for an ‘Ouverture dramatique’ from each. Bizet’s was performed on 15-2-1874, followed a week later by Massenet’s overture Phèdre, and a week after that by Guiraud’s Ouverture de concert. Bizet’s Patrie was published the same year in full score and in his own arrangement for piano duet, which may have appeared earlier. On p. 2–3 of that version appears the heading: 'Episode de la Guerre de Pologne (bataille de Raclawice gagnée sur les Russes, par Koscinszko, 1792)', although Pigot asserted that Bizet’s true purpose was to evoke the sufferings of Paris in 1870–71. Joseph Bennett said the title was the choice of Pasdeloup.
Autograph score:
Manuscript score: I-Ria Mss. Vess. 467. 52 p. , copied by Alessandro Vessella, c. 1890.
A.C. 2921
title page, blank, music 1–59, blank
2-1874
Choudens continued to issue the score from later addresses. GB-NWm. IMSLP.
Kalmus, New York, c. 1970, reprinted from the Choudens edition.
Musikproduktion Höflich, Munich, 2011, reprinted from the Choudens edition.
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Kalmus, New York, c. 1970, reprinted from the Choudens edition.
Choudens continued to issue this edition from later addresses. GB-NWm. IMSLP.
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Choudens, pl. no. A.C. 14143, c. 1906, arranged by Francis Casadesus.
2Fischer, New York, c. 1919, arranged by Charles J. Roberts.
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Oertel, Hanover, c. 1906, arranged by A. Seidel.
15-2-1874 | Concerts populaires, conducted by Pasdeloup
Reviews:
|
8-3-1874 | Concerts populaires, cond. Pasdeloup |
15-11-1874 | Concerts populaires, cond. Pasdeloup |
20-12-1874 | Concerts du Châtelet, cond. Colonne |
6-1875 | At Bizet's funeral |
10-1875 | Concerts du Châtelet, cond. Colonne |
3-1876 | London, Alexandra Palace |
27-3-1878 | Angers |
10-10-1878 | Concerts Populaires, cond. Pasdeloup |
12-1-1879 | Angers |
11-2-1879 | Hippodrome Festival, cond. Vizentini |
18-6-1879 | London |
25-6-1879 | London |
1-1880 | St Petersburg |
25-12-1887 | Angers |
4-1-1896 | Boston SO, cond. Paur |
25-1-1896 | Philadelphia, BSO, cond. Paur |
20-4-1899 | London, Queen's Hall |
7-1-1902 | Boston, cond. Longy |
13-11-1903 | New York PO, cond. Colonne. |
13-12-1907 | Boston SO, cond. Muck |
7-11-1920 | Boston, People's SO, cond. Mason |
13-4-1925 | Solesmes |
- Paris Conservatoire O, Cluytens (78)
- New SO, Sargent (78)
- SO, Cloëz (78)
- Pasdeloup O, Inghelbrecht (78)
- Chicago SO, Defauw, 1947
- NSO, Désormière, 1949
- Lamoureux O, Fournet, 1955
- Netherlands PO, Hausdörfer, 1955
- Royal PO, Beecham, 1956
- French RNO, Cluytens, 1953
- Suisse Romande, Ansermet, 1955
- Detroit SO, Paul Paray, Telefunken 1958
- USSR RSO, Gauk, 1960
- O de Paris, Barenboim, 1975
- French NO, Ozawa, 1983
- Mexico City PO, Bátiz, 1987
- ON du Capitole de Toulouse, Michel Plasson, EMI 1993
- Montreal SO, Dutoit, 1997
- RTÉ NSO, Tingaud, 2014
- Pigot (1886) 213, 216-18, 288, 294, 301, 305, 309
- Pigot (1911) 186, 188-90, 249, 254, 261, 264, 267
- Curtiss 344, 354-55, 365, 422, 466
- Dean 108, 128, 143-45, 210, 242, 264
- Wright 16, 347, 352, 354
- Lacombe 462, 621, 635-37, 639, 732
- Joseph Bennett, 'The Great Composers', Musical Times, 1-12-1886, p. 709.
- Romana Jasinski, ‘Ojczyzna Bizeta’, Ruch Muzyczny, 31 (1987), n13:26-7.
- Unidentified clippings from c. 1904 at US-Bp in the score of Patrie.