It's quite probable that in the first performance of "Barbiere" there
were no trombones in the overture, since they don't play in the rest of
the opera. But concert performances of this overture often use
trombones. The Eulenburg miniature score has the three trombones. It
also has important rhythmical and harmonic differences with the
overture in my Ricordi score, and I remember that the Zedda edition has
other differences.
I know that the Zedda edition is meant to be "critical", but it's
better to accept that there is no cast-iron "right" version of the
overture. Rossini adapted the scoring of the piece (used, as I said,
for two other operas previous to "Barbiere") to what he had at hand. If
he had trombones available for a performance he would probably have
used them.
On 17 Feb 2006, at 18:27, Johannes Gebauer wrote:
On 17.02.2006 Michael Cook wrote:
In my score (Dover reprint of old Ricordi) of the complete opera, the
overture is:
1fl. + 1picc., 2, 2, 2 - 2, 2, 3 - Timpani, Gran Cassa - Str
Ah, now this is conflicting information. Are there 3 trombones, or are
there not (this is important for me...).
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