This may have come from Halevy's opera "La Fee aux Roses". I suspect this has nothing to do with Schumann at all.
Eric James --- On Sat, 1/31/09, dalle...@bellsouth.net <dalle...@bellsouth.net> wrote: > From: dalle...@bellsouth.net <dalle...@bellsouth.net> > Subject: Re: [Hornlist] Die Rosenfee > To: "The Horn List" <horn@music.memphis.edu> > Date: Saturday, January 31, 2009, 8:17 PM > The Excerpt "Der Rosenfee" (Pink Fairy) first > appeared in Gumbert Orchestral Excerpts - Volume 1. Pottag > obviously copied into his own volumes of orchestral > excerpts. Note the orientation, measure layout and fonts are > identical. Now for the hard part. I cannot associate it to > any of Schumann's works without undertaking a melody to > melody search of all of Schumann's piano, operatic and > vocal works. There is no match by title to his songs or > piano pieces. My hunch is that it is an operatic aria, > transcribed for horn, something that Gumbert did frequently. > Also I suppose I should be using his correct name of > Gumpert, not Gumbert as published, according to "The > Horn Call". Regards. > _______________________________________________ > post: horn@music.memphis.edu > unsubscribe or set options at > http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/eric_d_james%40yahoo.com _______________________________________________ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
