Product Description
This arrangement of the well-known 'Can Can' tune is designed for double reed duet of oboe and bassoon. The oboe part can, however, also be played on flute - though extra care may need to be taken with dynamics to ensure that the melody is never swamped by the lower part.
Officially
entitled Galop Infernale, this piece hails from Offenbachs Orpheus in the Underworld, first
performed in October 1858. Offenbachs
comic opera is a humorous take on Glucks highly successful Orpheus and Euridice.
During a
scene in which the gods are socialising, Jupiter suggests dancing a
minuet. The other gods decide this is
far too staid, calling for something with a livelier, party-feel and the
Galop Infernale follows. The tunes
association with the high-kicking Can Can dance came later, some 50 years after
Offenbachs death, when the French cabaret venues Moulin Rouge and Folies Bergère appropriated the piece for use in this context.
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