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Carl Otto NIKOLAI – Melodies from the Overture ‘The Merry Wives of Windsor’ (Las alegres comadres de Windsor) – this music has been specially produced for Three Cellos. Also very suitable for larger cello ensembles, where the numerous double-stoppings may be played ‘divisi’.

Download Contents or Instructions:

PDF 1 – General Score (9 pages in all)

PDF 2 – All individual cello parts (14 pages in all)

The tempo is: Andante moderato – Allegro vivace

General difficulty of the music – other brief Information:

MEDIUM to DIFFICULT. There is plenty of interest in all parts, which share the important melodic lines; this reworking contains nice cello-singable melodies and lively rhythmic interest (sometimes simultaneously!).

The Merry Wives of Windsor (in German: Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor) is an opera in three acts by Otto Nicolai to a German libretto by Salomon Hermann Mosenthal based on the play The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare. The opera is a Singspiel, containing much spoken dialogue between distinct musical numbers. The opera remains popular in Germany, and the overture is sometimes heard in concert in other countries.

Otto Nicolai composed the music from 1845 to 1849. He had previously achieved great success with a few Italian operas, but this opera was to become his masterpiece in the German language. The composer himself made some changes to the libretto. The overture later inspired the short musical film, Overture to The Merry Wives of Windsor. Edwin Lemare also made a transcription for organ. In addition, Peter Richard Conte transcribed the score for the Wanamaker Organ. Now David Johnstone makes it available for cello ensembles!

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