Noël Charles Francois Gounod / Arr. Jos van de Braak

Titel / Title: Noël
Untertitel / Subtitle:
Herausgeber / Publisher: Baton Music
Instrumentation: Mezzo Soprano / Baritone and concert band
Produkttyp / Product: Partitur + Stimmen
Serie / Series: christmas

French composer Charles Gounod (1818-1893) regained great successes as a composer of operas, oratorios, masses and as an organist soon after graduating at the Paris Conservatory. When Gounod's Opera Faust' was premiered in Paris in 1859 he also had earned a reputation as a master of the French song, or mélodie'. One of these songs is Noël', a virtual Christmas aria' with a text of Jules Barbier, one of his librettists. Dutch arranger Jos van de Braak transcribed this song for mezzo soprano or baritone with accompaniment of a Symphonic Band.