(The management of Vienna’s Theater-an-der-Wien, site of the premiere, insisted on changing the title from Leonore to Fidelio to avoid confusion with Ferdinand Paër’s Leonore.) The opera foundered. 2, and that piece was used at the first performance, on November 20, 1805. 1 the third of the Fidelio overtures.) Beethoven then composed a second overture, Leonore No. (Another theory, supported by recent examination of the paper on which the sketches were made, holds that the work was written in 1806-1807 for a projected performance of the opera in Prague that never took place, thus making Leonore No. The composer’s early biographer Anton Schindler recorded that Beethoven rejected that first attempt after hearing it privately performed at Prince Lichnowsky’s palace before the premiere. For that production, Beethoven wrote the Leonore Overture No. The first version of the opera, written between January 1804 and early autumn 1805, was initially titled Leonore after the heroine, who courageously rescues her husband from his wrongful incarceration. Most Recent: May 1948, Fritz Busch conducting.īeethoven devoted a decade (1804-1814) to his only opera, Fidelio, and the most evident remnants of his extensive revisions are the quartet of overtures he composed for work.
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