Die Brautwahl, BV 258 (Busoni, Ferruccio)

Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's	3 acts (and a Nachspiel)
Composition Year	1905-1911
Genre Categories	Comic operas; Theatrical Works; Operas; For voices, mixed chorus, orchestra; Scores featuring the voice; Scores featuring mixed chorus; Scores featuring the orchestra; For voices and chorus with orchestra; German language

Sheet Music

Complete Score
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Editor	First edition
Language	German
Publisher. Info.	Berlin: Harmonie Verlag, 1914.
Copyright	Public Domain [tag/del]
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Complete Score
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Arranger	Egon Petri (1881-1962), piano reduction
Publisher. Info.	Berlin: Harmonie, 1912. Plate 509.
Copyright	Public Domain - Non-PD EU [tag/del]
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Work Title	Die Brautwahl
Alternative. Title	Musikalisch-fantastische Komödie
Composer	Busoni, Ferruccio
Internal Reference NumberInternal Ref. No.	IFB 9
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's	3 acts (and a Nachspiel)
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp.	1905-1911
First Performance.	1912-04-12
First Publication.	1912
Librettist	Busoni, after Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (1776-1822)
Language	German
Dedication	Gustav Brecher
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period	Romantic
Piece Style	Romantic
Instrumentation	Voices, chorus (unseen), orchestra
InstrDetail	3 piccolo, 3 flutes, 3 oboes, English horn, 3 clarinets, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, cymbals, triangle, drum, bass drum, glockenspiel, celesta, harp, piano, organ, strings; onstage: organ, glockenspiel, cornet à pistons, piano
Manuscript Sources	D-B Mus.Nachl. F. Busoni A, 266 (text finished 1906, composition 1908-9, scoring 1909-1911 October 8)
External Links	Wikipedia article

Busoni mentions "der unsichtbare Chor" on p.3 of the PDF but are there any pages of the full score that call for it? - ELS...

Based on E.T.A. Hoffmann's Erzählung

Full score published in 1914 (678 pp).