Canon
Where to start with Humperdinck
Essential works to know this composer by — spread across their styles-
StageHänsel and Gretel — Opera
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VocalAn das Christkind
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OrchestralDie Maurische Rhapsodie
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ChamberPiano Quintet in E flat major
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StageDie Marketenderin — Opera
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OrchestralDornröschen, 5 tone pictures from the opera
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StageDornröschen, opera
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StageKönigskinder — Opera
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OrchestralMerchant of Venice, incidental music
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ChamberPiano Quintet in G
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VocalRosmarin, "Es wollt ein Jungfrau früh aufstehn"
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ChamberString Quartet Movement in C minor
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ChamberString Quartet Movement in E minor
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ChamberString Quartet in C
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VocalWeihnachten, "Leise weht's durch alle Lande"
Listening guide
Hand-curated paths into Humperdinck's catalogueMost Popular
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Hansel and Gretel (opera)
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Prelude to Hansel and Gretel
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Evening Prayer from Hansel and Gretel
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Königskinder (opera)
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Dornröschen (Sleeping Beauty opera)
Most Acclaimed
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Hansel and Gretel
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Königskinder
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Prelude to Hansel and Gretel
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The Moorish Rhapsody
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Die Heirat wider Willen (opera)
Most Weird
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Königskinderthe original version used Sprechmelodie — spoken text with exact pitch notation; 10 years before Schoenberg’s Pierrot lunaire; controversial
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Hansel and Gretela fairy tale treated with Wagnerian orchestration — the Witch’s Ride is terrifying for a children’s opera
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Die Heirat wider Willenan adaptation of a Dumas comedy
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Bübchens Weihnachtstraumpantomime
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Moorish Rhapsodyone of his few purely orchestral works — exotic harmonics
Similar composers
Same era, overlapping styles — by genre & period affinityWorks 18
- Stage
- ● Hänsel and Gretel — Opera
- Die Marketenderin — Opera
- Dornröschen, opera
- Königskinder — Opera
- Vocal
- An das Christkind
- Rosmarin, "Es wollt ein Jungfrau früh aufstehn"
- Weihnachten, "Leise weht's durch alle Lande"
- When At Night I Go To Sleep, song
- Wiegenlied
- Winterlied, "Geduld, du kleine Knospe"
- Orchestral
- Die Maurische Rhapsodie
- Dornröschen, 5 tone pictures from the opera
- Merchant of Venice, incidental music
- Chamber
- Piano Quintet in E flat major
- Piano Quintet in G
- String Quartet Movement in C minor
- String Quartet Movement in E minor
- String Quartet in C