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Giacomo Meyerbeer : Jephtas Gelübde (Jephtha's Vow) – Vocal/Piano Score.

Starr, Mark.

Giacomo Meyerbeer : Jephtas Gelübde (Jephtha's Vow) – Vocal/Piano Score. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (538 pages)

Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION -- LIBRETTO -- OVERTURE -- ACT I -- Akt 2 -- ACT 3 -- APPENDIX.

Meyerbeer’s first opera, Jephtas Gelübde, has a libretto by the German academic Alois Schreiber, based on a Biblical theme taken from chapters 11-12 of the Book of Judges. The story centres on the vow the ancient Israelite Judge made to God in return for victory over the enemy: "If thou wilt give the Ammonites into my hand, then whatever comes forth from the doors of my house to meet me, when I return victorious . . . I will offer him up for a burnt offering". The first person he was fatefull.

9781443870245


Meyerbeer, Giacomo, -- 1791-1864.
Jephthah -- (Biblical judge).
Operas -- Scores.
Operas -- Librettos.


Electronic books.

ML410.M61 -- .G533 2013eb

782.1092

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