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Luisa Miller Overture

18496 min

This guide follows Verdi’s Luisa Miller Overture (1849) in one part (sonata form).

Recording: Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Daniele Gatti (2016)

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Luisa Miller Sonata form0:04–6:08

The : begins quietly with a short figure that circles around a note and then climbs, over a throbbing pulse in the low strings, and it soon erupts into anguished outbursts. The brings sweeping arpeggios but stays to the same idea, and the : rounds off the first part. The drives the through new keys. The brings back the and , now turning towards the major, and a faster carries the to its end.

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