the Operatic Saxophone

Klebe, Giselher

Ballet: Menagerie

Composed: 1958

Text: Frank Wedekind

Saxophone: 3 Saxophones

Publisher: Boosey and Hawkes

Premiere: 1958

Nationality: German

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Opera: Die Ermordung Cäsars

Composed: 1959

Librettist: Giselher Klebe

Text: Shakespeare

Saxophone: Soprano Saxophone, Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, 2 Baritone Saxophone

Publisher: Boosey and Hawkes

Premiere: 1959

Language: German

Nationality: German

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Opera: Alkmene op. 36

Composed: 1959-61

Librettist: Giselher Klebe

Text: Heinrich von Kleist

Saxophone: Alto Saxophone

Publisher: Boosey and Hawkes

Premiere: 1961

Language: German

Nationality: German

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Opera: Figaro läßt sich scheiden (Figaro Gets Divorced)

Composed: 1963

Librettist: Giselher Klebe

Text: Ödön von Horvath

Saxophone: Alto Saxophone

Publisher: Boosey and Hawkes

Premiere: 1963

Language: German

Nationality: German

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Opera: Jacobowsky und der Oberst (Jacobovsky and the Colonel)

Composed: 1964-65

Librettist:Giselher Klebe

Text: Franz Werfel

Saxophone: Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone

Publisher: Boosey and Hawkes

Premiere: 1965

Language: German

Nationality: German

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Opera: Das Märchen von der schönen Lilie

Composed: 1967-68

Librettist: Giselher Klebe

Text: Goethe

Saxophone: Alto Saxophone

Publisher: Bärenreiter Verlag Kassel

Premiere: 1969

Language: German

Nationality: German

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Opera: Ein wahrer Held

Composed: 1972-74

Librettist: Klebe and Lore

Text: John Millington

Saxophone: Alto Saxophone

Publisher: Bärenreiter Verlag Kassel

Premiere: 1975

Language: German

Nationality: German