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Festival commissioned Elgar to write a new work to be performed the following year. Before the première Elgar told a reporter, "I have, I think, enjoyed writing it more than any other music I have composed and perhaps for that reason it may prove to be among my better efforts". It was first performed
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in a Gloucestershire orchard. This is dispelled by the news of the King's death and Prince Hal's accession. As in the play, Falstaff hurries to London, confident of favours from the new monarch, but is instead dismissed and banished. Finally the broken Falstaff, having crept away, lies dying – "the
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The work was well received at its première in 1913, but did not inspire the great enthusiasm aroused by some of Elgar's earlier works. The composer thought it his finest orchestral piece, and many Elgar admirers agree, but it has not become a popular favourite. Compared to other Elgar works, it is
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Falstaff is scored for an orchestra of two flutes and piccolo, two oboes and cor anglais, two clarinets and bass clarinet, two bassoons and contrabassoon, four horns, three trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion (side drum, triangle, tabor, tambourine, bass drum, cymbals), two harps
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wrote that " made the band do it all, and with such masterful success that one cannot bear to think what would have been the result of a mere attempt to turn the play into an opera." Others were less impressed with the work. The dedicatee, Landon Ronald, admitted to
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chord in the brass and a hushed roll on the side-drum portray Falstaff's death. The work ends with a very brief version of Prince Hal's theme showing, in the composer's words, that "the man of stern reality has triumphed."
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Though concert performances have been comparatively rare, the work has been well served in recordings. There were no fewer than 20 recorded versions of the work by 2007. The composer's own 1931–1932 recording with the
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opined that the conductor (Andrew Davis) "could not do much, in fact, to rescue the character's spirited braggadocio from the programmatic detail that smothered the music." The well-known Elgarian writer
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praised for its "spacious yet purposeful conception" and "meticulous fidelity to the letter and spirit of the score and architectural splendour." In 2005, the BBC also recommended a
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was closely associated with the work and made three recordings of it. His final version, set down in 1973, was praised by critics for emphasising the "symphonic'" aspect. In 1978,
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commented, "the work is unsurpassed in modern music for variety, effectiveness and sureness of orchestral writing." The London première was on 3 November 1913, at the
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as "one of the immeasurably great things in music" with power "identical with Shakespeare's," and the 1955 reference work
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said of the London première that it was played to "a not very large but very enthusiastic audience" and subsequently
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and selected Barbirolli's recording as "the essential choice" and "one of the pinnacles of the Elgar discography."
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of its day that suffers nothing by comparison with the best of Richard Strauss's works in the genre".
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In the first section, Elgar establishes the two main themes of the piece, that for Prince Hal (marked
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infrequently played in the concert hall, although it is well represented in the CD catalogues.
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that it was a "great work" but "so far as public appreciation goes, a comparative failure."
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The subsequent development of the score follows closely the key events of the two parts of
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has remained less popular than other major Elgar works, though much loved by aficionados.
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king hath killed his heart" – and after a return of the theme of the second interlude, a
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best." Even during Elgar's lifetime, the musical scholar Percy Scholes wrote of
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Reed, p. 151. Reed played the violin solos in Elgar's recording of the work.
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Shaw's Music – The Complete Musical Criticism of Bernard Shaw, Volume 3
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noted in its obituary of Elgar that though "a majority would call
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Shaw, George Bernard. "The Music of the Future", Laurence, p. 534
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adapted these words of Falstaff for his libretto for the
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his greatest work" most people would "say they like the
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at Leeds on 1 October 1913, conducted by the composer.
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Elgar Society's list of world-wide public performances
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Index


C minor
Edward Elgar
symphonic poem
Franz Liszt
Richard Strauss
Sir John Falstaff
William Shakespeare
Henry IV
score
The Musical Times
Prince Henry
Eastcheap
Gadshill
Thomas Mowbray
Duke of Norfolk
Gloucestershire
King Henry V


Arrigo Boito
Verdi
opera of the same name
buffo
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Henry IV, Part 1
Henry IV, Part 2
idyll
piano
C major

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