Description

• Composer: Vítězslav Novák (1870-1949)
• Format: Full Score
• Instrumentation: Orchestra
• Work: Korzár (The Corsair) (1892)
• Binding:
• Size: 8.3 x 11.6 inches
• Pages: 106

Description

Orchestration: 2 flutes (1 doubling piccolo), 2 oboes (1 doubling English horn), 2 clarinets in B-flat, bass clarinet in B-flat, 2 bassoons, 4 French horns in F, 3 trumpets in F, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion (side drum and gong), strings

Michael Beckerman, one of the leading English-language writers on Czech orchestral music, places composer Vítězslav Novák in the “all-purpose pantheon of Smetana, Dvořák, Fibich, Janáček, Suk, Foerster and Martinů.” Author and music critic Max Brod called his music “authentically spiritual.”