Coriolanus, Op. 61

Composer: MACKENZIE, Sir Alexander Campbell
  • Mackenzie composed incidental music for a Henry Irving production of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus in 1901. The composer later arranged the music into a four-movement orchestral suite:
    1. Prelude
    2. Alla Marcia
    3. Marche funèbre
    4. Entr’acte – Voces populi (“Voices of the people”)
  • Fun/ somber fact – the “Marche funèbre” was played at both Henry Irving’s funeral in 1905 and the composer’s memorial service in 1935.1

Sources

  1. Duncan J. Barker, “Mackenzie, Sir Alexander Campbell,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed August 17, 2022, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000017356.

Cut IDs

24654