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Orpheus in the Underworld Overture

186010 min

This guide follows Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld Overture (1860) in one part.

Recording: New York Philharmonic, Zubin Mehta (1987)

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Follow all 8 sections as they play

(arr. Carl Binder, Vienna 1860)0:00–9:38

This is one continuous medley, and it divides into eight lettered sections, A to H. Listen for the change of tune from one section to the next: it opens with a , followed by solos for clarinet and oboe. The last and longest section is H, and the closes with the galop infernal, the can-can.

  1. A
  2. B

Section boundaries in music are not always sharp; a transition may be felt over a pause or a held chord.

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Jacques OffenbachOrchestral worksRomantic period

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