- Composition: 1820
- Ensembles: Full Orchestra
- Genres: Classical Music, Opera and Zarzuela
- Instrumentation: 2022 - 2000 - timp - archi
- Duration: 10 Minutes
- Reference: TR00045
Audio
Overture to the opera Los esclavos felices
1._Obertura_de_Los_esclavos_felices.mp3
Author
Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga
Bilbao ( 1806 ) - París ( 1826 )
The Basque composer Arriaga left behind a small yet quite remarkable output, which makes his premature death at nineteen, just when he was beginning to make a name for himself with Parisian audiences, all the more sad. His style is replete with influences from the most important early Romantic composers, from Italian opera, and, especially, from central-European symphonic music....