Music for the Young
Full title | Music for the Young for small orchestra | |
Date composed | 1939 | |
Details |
Also titled Boy Scouts Overture. Composition completed on 21 June 1939. Orchestration: 2(2nd alt.=Picc.),2,2,2/2,1,0,0/Timp.,Perc.(=cyms/tgl/SD),Str. Dedication: to John W. Weigl. Performance duration: ca. 7 min. |
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Manuscript sources | NYPL JOB 73-159, holograph score (9 folded folios [32 numbered pages]), with composer's completion date at end: New York, 21./VI 1939; penciled alternative title: Music for the Young; and dedication on title page: Dedicated to our dear boy / John Wolfgang / Boy-Scouts Overture for small Orchestra / New York, June 1939 / Karl Weigl. See also NYPL JPB 99-7 no. 98, photocopy of copyist's score (27 pages), with copyist's note at end: New York, June 21, 1939, copied by W. Weissleder. | |
Publication details | Boosey and Hawkes, n.d. | |
Availabiity | Score and parts available from B&H and FCP. | |
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