La Tarantelle de la mort (Bittner, Julius)

Composition Year	1920 January (reduction) ; 1920 February 23 (orchestration)
Genre Categories	Incidental music; Theatrical Works; For voices, orchestra; Scores featuring the voice; Scores featuring the orchestra; For voices with orchestra; German language; For piano (arr); For 1 player (arr); Scores featuring the piano (arr)

Sheet Music

Vocal Scores

Complete Score
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Publisher. Info.	Vienna: Univeral Edition, 1920. Plate U.E. 6436.
Copyright	Public Domain [tag/del]
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Arrangements and Transcriptions

Valse lente

For Piano

Complete Score
*#642720 - 0.59MB, 6 pp. - 0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/25 - 26×⇩ - Afp0815

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Arranger	Composer
Publisher. Info.	Wien: Universal Edition, 1920. Plate U.E. 6501.
Copyright	Public Domain [tag/del]
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General Information

Work Title	La Tarantelle de la mort
Alternative. Title	Todestarantella
Composer	Bittner, Julius
Internal Reference NumberInternal Ref. No.	IJB 10
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp.	1920 January (reduction) ; 1920 February 23 (orchestration)
First Publication.	1920
Librettist	Bruno Hardt-Warden (1883–1954) Ignaz Michael Welleminsky (1882–1942)
Language	German
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period	Romantic
Piece Style	Early 20th century
Instrumentation	voices, orchestra
Manuscript Sources	Autograph 150 page full score at ÖNB (title La Tarantella de la mort) Autograph piano reduction at ÖNB
Extra Information	Described as "Mimodrama."

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Encyclopedia.com defines mimodrama as "Play or drama in which action is carried on in dumb-show [mime], often to mus. Differs from ballet because movts. are not formalized." This would make this more like incidental music, so this page is tagged as incidental music.