Berlioz: "Béatrice et Bénédict" Overture, H 138 (with Score)

Hector Berlioz:
"Béatrice et Bénédict" Overture, H 138 (with Score)
Composed: 1860-62
Orchestra: Orchestre symphonique de Montréal
Conductor: Charles Dutoit
Wikipedia article
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International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
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[@carlkulzer5982]

They are now.

[@Vulpini09]

It there a reaseon why the bassoons are not scrored under the clarinets?

[@LearnCompositionOnline]

Good question! We have to see the editor notes and check the original manuscript

[@LearnCompositionOnline]

I would risk to say the composer went to the similarities between horn and clarinet of a bright and full foreground sound

[@Lequerica]

This was the French common procedure for scoring at the time, considering the horns as part of a woodwind quintet, hence displacing the bassoons further down the score.

[@johns.4708]

The antithesis of Wagner.

[@LearnCompositionOnline]

In quality or style?

[@johns.4708]

@@LearnCompositionOnline Style, affect, orchestration... both great composers, if not, the question would not arise.

[@christianwouters6764]

I would say Wagner sometimes used textures.similar to Berlioz chamber music like orchestration, f.i. in the flower maidens passage in Parsifal. The inverse never occurred.