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Othello Overture, Op. 93

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This guide follows Dvořák’s Othello Overture, Op. 93 (1892) in one part (sonata form).

Recording: Berliner Philharmoniker, Jakub Hrůša (2019)

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– Sonata form0:16–14:56

, then . A long slow opens with a -like melody in the strings. The fast section begins with the stern , linked to Othello, and a passionate . The lyrical , linked to Desdemona, leads to the , where Dvořák wrote of an embrace. A fairly short follows. The rewritten builds to the murder, and the depicts the suicide.

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