Overture to Scenes from Goethe's "Faust" from WoO 3 [wind parts] 10.044/05 the “drum roll” in the

the “drum roll” in the middle section and the heroic demeanour of the work in general all evoke the world of military music

based as its most important source on the conducting score from which Handel himself directed his performances

which can be regarded as a very personal

for which Bach reverted to a proven model: The four voices of the solo ensemble take over the chorale

partly autographic performance material discloses traces of frequent use

Overture to Scenes from Goethe's "Faust" from WoO 3 [wind parts] 10.044/05 the “drum roll” in theThe Faust Overture in its First Urtext Edition The questionWhy add music to such perfect poetry? preoccupied Schumann long and intensively. His first compositional approach to GoethesFaust began in 1844, but it was not until 1851 that he finally completed the Scenes. At Liszts suggestion, Schumann added an overture in 1853, a symphonicinstrumental introduction which atmospherically evokes the action of the Scenes but has no direct thematic reference