Original title: Szenen aus Goethes Faust.

Scoring: Voices, mixed chorus, orchestra.

Settings of scenes from both parts of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Faust. The sections were composed at... Read more

Original title: Szenen aus Goethes Faust.

Scoring: Voices, mixed chorus, orchestra.

Settings of scenes from both parts of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Faust. The sections were composed at different times in 1844–53; the overture was written last. The third part sets the closing scene of Faust, Part Two.

Text authors: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Movements / numbers:
1. Overture
2. Scene in the Garden
3. Gretchen before the Image of Mater dolorosa
4. Scene in the Cathedral
5. Sunrise
6. Midnight
7. Faust’s Death
8. Faust’s Transfiguration: Waldung, sie schwankt heran
9. Ewiger Wonnebrand
10. Wie Felsenabgrund mir zu Füßen
11. Gerettet ist das edle Glied
12. Hier ist die Aussicht frei
13. Dir, der Unberührbaren
14. Alles Vergängliche

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