Der Rosenkavalier in Full Score

By Richard Strauss

This superb edition of Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, one of the greatest masterpieces in the operatic repertoire, is reprinted complete and unabridged from a rare, limited, and numbered edition approved by Strauss and prepared by his publisher, Adolph Fürstner, prior to the opera's premiere in Dresden in 1911.
Available for the first time in inexpensive format — at far less than the cost of any comparable full-score edition — this volume offers an easy-to-read score, with wide margins, large noteheads, and many other helpful features. Carefully printed and sturdily bound, it will provide a lifetime of pleasurable use to professional and amateur musicians as well as those who delight in following, score in hand, a live or recorded performance.
Der Rosenkavalier is the most popular operatic work of the Bavarian composer in whose operas, songs, and symphonic poems the aesthetics of the Romantic movement were to reach their ultimate expression. A radiant and bittersweet celebration of love, it was Strauss's most successful collaboration with the illustrious Austrian poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal, and was an immediate sensation.
Audiences then, as now, were enthralled by the melodic glories of Der Rosenkavalier's vocal ensembles, the richness of its orchestration, and the charm and depth of its characters. Throughout, it reveals the composer's bravura post-Romantic style, which was to influence numerous composers and to mesmerize audiences around the world. It remains today one of the most performed and recorded of all operatic works.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Release date: Aug 16, 2013
• ISBN: 9780486319506

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RICHARD STRAUSS

Der Rosenkavalier

in Full Score

Dover Publications, Inc., New York

Dedicated to my dear relatives

the Pschorr family in Munich

Der Rosenkavalier

Comedy for music in three acts

by Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Music by Richard Strauss

Opus 59

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Copyright

Copyright © 1987 by Dover Publications, Inc.

All rights reserved.

Bibliographical Note

This Dover edition, first published in 1987, is a republication of the original edition published by Adolph Fürstner, Berlin, in 1910. The copy of the score reproduced here is no. 36 of a limited edition. The original longer title page and lists of characters and instruments in German have been replaced by new English translations, and a new English table of contents, glossary of German musical terms and translations of footnotes have been added.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Strauss, Richard, 1864-1949.

Der Rosenkavalier.

Opera; libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal.

Reprint. Originally published: Berlin: A. Fürstner, 1910.

ISBN-13: 978-0-486-25498-2

ISBN-10: 0-486-25498-4

1. Operas—Scores. I. Hofmannsthal. Hugo von, 1874-1929. Ibt II. Title.

M1500.S89R5       1987              87-751781

Manufactured in the United States by Courier Corporation

25498406

www.doverpublications.com

Contents

Glossary of German Musical Terms in the Score

Characters

Instrumentation

First Act

Wie du warst! Wie du bist! (Octavian)

Marie Theres’!—Octavian! (Octavian, Marschallin)

Baron Ochs’s Entrance

The Levee

Di rigori armato (Singer)

Ach! Du bist wieder da? (Marschallin)

Second Act

Mir ist die Ehre widerfahren (Octavian)

Baron Ochs’s Entrance

Mord! Mord! Mein Blut, zu Hilfe! (Baron)

Da lieg’ ich (Baron)

Third Act

Hab’n Euer Gnaden noch weitre Befehle? (Innkeeper)

Nein, nein, nein, nein! I trink kein Wein (Octavian)

Er ist es! Es ist mein Mann! (Annina)

Entschuld’gen Euer Gnaden (Waiters)

Hab’ mir’s gelobt (Marschallin, Sophie, Octavian)

1st ein Traum—Spür’ nur dich (Sophie, Octavian)

Glossary of German Musical Terms in the Score

aber, but; alle, all; allein, alone; allmählich, gradually; als, as, than; auf, up; Aufzug, act; ausdrucksvoll, expressively; äusserst, aeusserst, extremely; aussprechen, pronounce; beginnen, begin; beginnend, beginning; bei, with; beruhigen, die down, lessen; beschwingt, quickly; bewegt, moving, agitated; bewegter, quicker; breit, broad; Bühne, stage; Chor, chorus; Dämpfer, mute; dann, then; dasselbe, the same; derb, coarsely; des, of; deutlich, clearly; Doppelgriff, double stop; doppelt so langsam, twice as slow; drängend, pressing, stringendo; dreifach, divided in three, divisi; dreitaktig, in triple meter; durchaus, thoroughly; eilen, hurry; Einleitung, introduction; Erde, floor; ersten, first; Es, E-flat; etwas, somewhat; Fanfaren, fanfares; ferne, distant; fest, firm, steady; flageolets, harmonics; Flatterzunge, flutter-tongue; fliessender, flowing; folgen, follow; frech, saucy, brazen; frisch, fresh, cheerful; früher, earlier; ganze, whole; gedämpft, muted; gedehnt, lengthened; gefühlvoll, full of expression; gehend, moving; gelassener, calmer; gemächlich, leisurely; gemessen, measured, moderate; gesanglich, singing; gestopft,