Elizabeth Bay House Concert: Overture to Lodoiska by Rodolphe Kreutzer

Rodolphe Kreutzer (1766-1831): ‘Overture to Lodoiska’ (arr. for pianoforte trio).

Annie Gard (violin)
Daniel Yeadon (violoncello)
Neal Peres Da Costa (pianoforte)

The English comic opera Lodoiska, a pasticcio (or compilation) from several continental operas of the same name, was first performed in London in 1794, and its overture, drawn from Kreuzter’s 1791 Paris Lodoiska, remained a favourite with British audiences for decades thereafter. It was equally popular in Sydney, as regularly played by military bandsmen in the Domain and at the theatre, and in sheet music piano solo arrangements, such as that published in Sydney by Francis Ellard (copies of which the performers are playing from and held in the collection of the Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection, Sydney Living Museums).

‘On the Plains of Emu: Settler Art Music in Early NSW’, Elizabeth Bay House, Sydney, 27 February 2022. A concert presented by the Sydney Living Museums Foundation and Hearing the Music of Early New South Wales 1788-1860, Conservatorium of Music, The University of Sydney. Australian Research Discovery Project DP210101511 – 2021–24.

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