- Farrenc composed two concert overtures in 1834: this one, and her second, in E-flat Major, Op. 24. Both remained unpublished during her lifetime. These were Farrenc’s first orchestral works.1
- Farrenc’s first concert overture premiered in 1835 in Paris in a performance by the Société des concerts du Conservatoire.2
Sources
- Bea Friedland, “Farrenc family,” Grove Music Online, (2001), accessed July 1, 2021, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000009336.
- Richard E. Rodda, program notes to “Magnificent Mozart,” Allentown Symphony, May 1, 2021, Miller Symphony Hall, accessed August 19, 2021, https://www.millersymphonyhall.org/images/aso/21-5-1_Program_Notes-Magnificent_Mozart.pdf.
Cut IDs
23839