Otto Nicolai - Overture: Il templario (The Templar)

Overture to the melodramma "Il templario" (The Templar) by German composer Otto Nicolai (1810-1849). Better known for his Singspiel "Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor" (The Merry Wives of Windsor) based on Shakespeare's play, Nicolai chose another classic of English-language literature as the basis of Il templario, Walter Scott's famous novel "Ivanhoe." Many 19th-century composers chose to adapt this novel for the opera house, including Rossini (Ivanhoé), Arthur Sullivan (Ivanhoe) and Heinrich Marschner (Der Templer und die Jüdin).

Interesting fact: Otto Nicolai founded the Philharmonische Academie in 1842 - now it is known as the Vienna Philharmonic (Wiener Philharmoniker).

In this performance Frank Beermann conducts the Robert-Schumann-Philharmonie.

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