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Werther

Werther is an opera (drame lyrique) in four acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Édouard Blau, Paul Milliet and Georges Hartmann (who used the pseudonym Henri Grémont). It is loosely based on Goethe's epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther, which was based both on fact and on Goethe's own early life. Earlier examples of operas using the story were made by Kreutzer (1792) and Pucitta (1802).[1]

This article is about the opera by Massenet. For other uses, see Werther (disambiguation).

Werther

French

16 February 1892 (1892-02-16)
Hofoper, Vienna (in German)

Instrumentation[edit]

2 flutes (2nd doubling piccolo), 2 oboes (doubling English horns), 2 clarinets in B-flat and A, alto saxophone, 2 bassoons, 4 horns in F, 2 cornets in B-flat and A, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion (1) (bass drum, triangle), harp, strings.

; Borowski, Felix (1928). The Standard Opera Guide. Blue Ribbon Books, New York. pp. 187–8.

Upton, George

(1976). The Complete Opera Book. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. pp. 864–9.

Kobbé, Gustav

Huebner, Steven (2006). . Oxford University Press, US. pp. 113–34. ISBN 978-0-19-518954-4.

French Opera at the Fin de Siècle: Werther

indiana.edu

Werther: Full orchestral score

1893 publication, French, digitization by BYU on archive.org

Werther : drame lyrique en quatre actes et cinq tableaux (d'apres Goethe)