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Gypsy Love Song – Victor HERBERT

arranged for Four Solo Cellos by David Johnstone

PDF 1 – General Score

PDF 2 – All Individual Cello Parts

EXAMPLE from Score:

Notes:

Victor Herbert’s “Gypsy Love Song” was first published in 1898, and written for voice (baritone or mezzo-soprano) and piano. It comes from Act II of ‘The Fortune Teller’, an operetta in three acts with a libretto by Harry B. Smith. It was the eighth of more than 50 Herbert stage works.

After a brief try-out in Toronto, it premiered on Broadway on September 26, 1898 at Wallack’s Theatre and ran for 40 performances. The “Gypsy Love Song – Slumber On, My Little Gypsy Sweetheart” – to give its complete title – is the most famous musical piece from the light opera.

It was also later arranged for Piano Trio by George John Trinkaus (1878-1960).

In 1903 ‘The Fortune Teller’ was seen in Australia. ‘The Fortune Teller’ returned briefly to Broadway in 1929. Much later, a heavily adapted version, with bits of the score combined with some music from Herbert’s earlier The Serenade, was produced on the West Coast as ‘Gypsy Lady’ and also, without apparent success, in New York in 1946. The following year it was programmed in London under the title ‘Romany Love’. Bits of the score (though not the lyrics) also turned up in a 1934 Warner Brothers film based on the show in which Anita Campillo played the heroine’s double rôle.

This is ideal for four cellos, and not by a cello orchestra rendition although a larger cello ensemble could divide itself between parts 2, 3 and 4, leaving the soloist first part to a single player.

Level: Moderate-to-difficult. The first line uses regular thumb position, and the other three double-stoppings, but is perfectly suited to more advanced players, teachers and higher-level students.

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