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Ouverture d’Iphigénie en Aulide
Christoph Willibald Gluck (1789–1856)
Transcribed by Craig Dabelstein (1973–)
📅 1774 🎺 Concert Band ⏰ 7 min 30 sec 4️⃣ Medium 📄 PDF download
The overture to Gluck’s three-act opera, Iphigénie en Aulide, the first work he wrote for the Paris stage. The libretto was written by François-Louis Gand Le Bland Du Roullet and was based on Jean Racine’s tragedy Iphigénie. It was premiered on 19 April 1774 by the Paris Opéra.