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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
Der fliegende Holländer Overture
This guide follows Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer Overture (1841) in one part (sonata form).
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Listen first for the Dutchman's on A and D, and then for the strings stirring up the sea. The first starts almost at once. The lyrical is where Senta's melody, given to the English horn, brings relief from the storm. The mixes these ideas. In the only the comes back, and then the starts.
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Section boundaries in music are not always sharp; a transition may be felt over a pause or a held chord.
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