Andreas Pflüger
Die Prinzessin auf der Erbse
Short instrumentation: 1 1 1 1 - 1 1 0 0, perc(2), str
Duration: 7'
Solos:
speaker
Instrumentation details:
flute
oboe
clarinet in Bb
bassoon
horn in F
trumpet in C
percussion (2 players)
violin I (6 players)
violin II (6 players)
viola (5 players)
violoncello (3 players)
double bass (2 players)
Die Prinzessin auf der Erbse
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Andreas Pflüger
Die Prinzessin auf der Erbse
Available digitally
Orchestration: für Sprechstimme und Kammerorchester
Type: Dirigierpartitur
Andreas Pflüger
Sprecher (Die Prinzessin auf der Erbse)
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Type: Solostimme(n)
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Work introduction
The fairy tale is about a prince who asked his father for a wife. He wanted to fulfil the wish, but it had to be a princess. One evening, during a storm, a rain-soaked damsel appears at the city gate, claiming to be a real princess. To find out if this is the truth, the old queen secretly puts a pea on the floor of the bedstead, and on top of it twenty mattresses and twenty eiderdown quilts. When the princess complains the next morning that she slept badly - because on something hard - the proof is there. For only a real princess can be so sensitive. The prince then takes her as his wife.
What is necessary to perform this work?
1 flute, 1 oboe, 1 clarinet in Bb, 1 bassoon, 1 horn in F, 1 trumpet in C,
percussion (2players), 1 narrator, strings