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Christoph Weyse, Ouverture de la tragedie Macbeth: From the Freedman Collection: "Overture af Macbeth"

by Harrison Gilberti

Weyse's "Ouverture af Macbeth."

One of the pieces in the RBI Freedman Collection by Weyse is his “Ouverture af Macbeth.” It was published sometime in the 1870s by Lose and is a condensed piano score based on Weyse's own Macbeth (1817). In this piano reduction, Weyse maintains the overall harmony and rhythms from the full orchestration of the overture, which is found in an original manuscript. 

Weyse's Legacy

Title page of Weyse Overture on Macbeth

Title page of artifact from Freedman Collection.