A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Fierrabras

FIERRABRAS. An opera in 3 acts by Schubert, words by Kupelwieser. It was commissioned by Barbaja, but owing to his failure was never performed, and remains in MS. in the Library of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde at Vienna. Act 1, 304 pages, is dated at beginning and end 25th and 31st May (1823); Act 2, 31st May and 5th June. The overture is occasionally played at concerts. [App. p.636 "the full score has lately been printed by Breitkopf and Härtel, as one of the earliest volumes of their complete edition of Schubert's works."]

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