Jubilee Overture, Op. 59

Composer: WEBER, Carl Maria von
  • Weber composed his Jubel-Ouvertüre, Op. 59, in 1818, while he was working as Court Composer in Dresden.1 The overture premiered on September 20, 1818, at the Dresden Court Theater.2
  • Weber composed this work for the fiftieth anniversary of the reign of King Friedrich August I of Saxony.3
  • The overture quotes the patriotic anthem Heil dir im Siegerkranz, which uses the same tune English-speakers might know as “God Save the King” or “My Country, ‘Tis of Thee.”4

Sources

  1. Paul Corneilson, Joachim Veit, Thomas Bauman, Patricia Lewy Gidwitz, John Warrack, and Michael C. Tusa, “Weber family,” Grove Music Online (January 20, 2001), accessed November 30, 2021,  https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000040313.
  2. “Jubel-Ouvertüre, Op.59 (Weber, Carl Maria von),” IMSLP, accessed November 30, 2021, https://imslp.org/wiki/Jubel-Ouvert%C3%BCre%2C_Op.59_(Weber%2C_Carl_Maria_von).
  3. Leslie Howard, “Jubelouvertüre von Carl Maria von Weber – Klavierpartitur, S576,” Hyperion (1998), accessed November 30, 2021, https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dw.asp?dc=W6423_GBAJY9720308.
  4. Ibid.

Cut IDs

40036