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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 Excerpt: ...and her alone. He takes Euryanthe into the desert, intending to kill her; but they are attacked by a serpent and the girl throws herself between the reptile and her lover. Adolar kills the serpent, but he cannot find the heart to murder her who would have given her life for his. He leaves her to her fate. Euryanthe is found by the king and his hunters, and to the monarch she unfolds the story of her woe, and the treachery of Eglantine. In the meantime Eglantine has become affianced to Lysiart, and the wedding is about to be celebrated in the Castle of Nevers when the woman is suddenly stricken with hysterical remorse. She thinks that Euryanthe appears to her as a ghost, and in her ravings divulges the plot. Lysiart in fury slays his bride, but is at once seized by order of the king, who enters with Adolar as Eglantine breathes her last. Explanations follow, and Euryanthe, who makes her appearance at that moment, is once more taken to the heart of her beloved. The overture to "Euryanthe" is scored for two fiutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, kettledrums and strings. The overture commences impetuously (Allegro marcato, con moUo fuoco, E flat major, 4-4 time) with a brilliant theme in the strings. The subject contains a second section (in the Recapitulation it is omitted,) which appears eight bars after the beginning of the piece, and in the wind instruments. This theme is drawn from the first act, in which it forms part of Adolar's aria, "Ich ban auf Gott und meine Euryanthe." The second theme, in B flat major, is announced by the first violins in a tender melody taken from another aria of Adolar, "Wehen mir Liifte Ruh" (Act II). Material from the first portion of the principa...
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