This convenient playing and study edition marks the first single-volume
publication of five great staples of the orchestral repertoire: Jubilee
Overture, overture to the play Preciosa, and overtures to the operas
Der Freischütz, Euryanthe, and *Oberon.
*One of the Romantic school's first composers of note, Carl Maria von
Weber devised novel conceptions of orchestration and subject matter that
helped to lay the foundations for nineteenth-century opera. Marschner,
Meyerbeer, and Wagner were influenced by Weber's works, as well as
latter-day composers such as Hindemith, Mahler, Stravinsky, and Debussy,
who remarked that the sound of the Weber orchestra derived from the
composer's scrutiny of the soul of each instrument.