Product Description
Galop
Infernal (also known as the 'Can-Can') composed by Jacques Offenbach (1819 - 1880), arranged by Paul Burnell, December 2019, for instruments in four parts.
Duration 2:30
The arrangement is suitable for multiple quartet
combinations with parts available (and potential instrumentations suggested) as
follows:
Part 1: C, Bb (flute, oboe, Bb clarinet, trumpet/cornet, violin)
Part 2: C, Bb (oboe, Bb clarinet,
trumpet/cornet, violin)
Part 3: C - alto &
treble clefs, Bb, F, Eb (Bb clarinet, alto
saxophone, horn in F, tenor horn, viola)
Part 4: C - bass clef,
treble clef in Bb (bassoon, tenor
saxophone, trombone, 'cello)
Any other appropriate
instruments, even if not suggested above, may play.
Part 4 may be played an
octave lower than written.
Although the score is
presented with layout appropriate for a brass quartet of two Cornets in Bb, Tenor horn in Eb and Trombone in treble
clef with Bb transposition this does
not indicate a preferred instrumentation.
Programme note:
The 'Galop Infernal'
appears in the comic opera 'Orphée aux enfers' ('Orpheus in the Underworld')
composed by Jacques Offenbach (1819 - 1880) and first performed in Paris in
1858.
After Offenbach's death
the Galop Infernal became one of the world's most famous pieces of
music, when the Moulin Rouge and the Folies
Bergère adopted it as the regular music for their can-can.
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