Annual Reid Concert 1905
The Overture from Monteverdi to Wagner.
Venue:
About fifty members of the Scottish orchestra
Mr Henri Verbrugghen - leader of the orchestra
Professor Niecks - conductor
In memory of General Reid, founder of the chair of music in the University of Edinburgh
Introduction, pastoral, and march ... General Reid
Programme of overtures
Early essays
1. Toccata to "Orfeo" ... Claudio Monteverdi
2. Sinfonia to "Il Giasone" ... Francesco Cavalli
The old overture
3. Overture to "Roland" ... Jean Baptiste Lully
4. Sinfonia to "La Rosaura" ... Alessandro Scarlatti
5. Overture to "Giustino" ... George Frederick Handel
The modern classical overture
6. Overture to "Iphigénie en Aulide" with Mozart's ending ... Christoph Willibald Gluck
7. Overture to "Die Zauberflöte" ... Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
8. Overture to "Anacreon" ... Maria Luigi Cherubini
9. Overture to "Egmont" ... Ludwig van Beethoven
The modern romantic overture
10. Overture to "La Gazza ladra" ... Gioacchino Rossini
11. Overture to "Euryanthe" ... Carl Maria von Weber
12. Overture, "The Hebrides" ... Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
13. Overture to "Zanetta" ... Daniel François Esprit Auber
14. Overture to "Manfred" ... Robert Schumann
15. Overture to "Die Meistersinger" ... Richard Wagner
Composer(s):
- Monteverdi, Claudio, 1567-1643
- Cavalli, Pier Francesco, 1602-1676
- Lully, Jean-Baptiste de, 1632-1687
- Scarlatti, Alessandro, 1660-1725
- Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759
- Gluck, Christoph Willibald, Ritter von, 1714-1787
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791
- Cherubini, Luigi, 1760-1842
- Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827
- Rossini, Gioacchino, 1792-1868
- Weber, Carl Maria von, 1786-1826
- Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix, 1809-1847
- Auber, D.F.E. (Daniel François Esprit), 1782-1871
- Schumann, Robert, 1810-1856
- Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883
- Reid, John, 1722-1807
Page 3 - In memory of General Reid
Pages 6-11 - six-page essay entitled 'historical sketch of the overture.'
On the outside back page - dates and programmes of the four historical concerts.