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Famous overtures
Twelve overtures from Mozart's Figaro to Bernstein's Candide, each a complete piece in a few minutes.
Mozart → Beethoven → Rossini → Weber → Mendelssohn → Wagner → Berlioz → Offenbach → Brahms → Tchaikovsky → Bernstein
Orpheus in the Underworld Overture
This guide follows Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld Overture (1860) in one part.
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Follow all 8 sections as they play, free for 3 days
(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.
- A
- 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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