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Overture to a Picaresque Comedy
The ''Overture to a Picaresque Comedy'' is a concert overture composed by Arnold Bax in 1930. It was premiered by the Hallé Orchestra conducted by the dedicatee, Sir Hamilton Harty, in November 1931. The work is untypical of its composer, who was not usually associated with comedy in music.
==Background==
Bax was generally associated with music that the 1955 reference work ''The Record Guide'' called "intrinsically noble, humane, and capable of a certain melancholy grandeur".〔 Sackville-West and Shawe-Taylor, pp. 75–76〕 In his youth, Bax had been greatly taken with the works of Richard Strauss, before his enthusiasm was diverted to a fascination with Celtic culture. When Sir Hamilton Harty approached him in 1930 to write a short overture for the Hallé Orchestra , Bax promised him "Straussian pastiche", and produced what the composer's biographer, Lewis Foreman calls "this memorable and high-spirited score complete with lapses into waltz time."〔Foreman, Lewis (1987). Notes to Chandos CD 8494, (OCLC 705060287 )〕
The word "picaresque" is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as designating "a genre of narrative fiction which deals episodically with the adventures of an individual, usually a roguish and dishonest but attractive hero". Bax wrote, "This overture does not pretend to be the prelude to any particular play. It is simply a piece of music associated with some character as d'Artagnan or Casanova."〔 Foreman comments, "From the early appearance of the theme on tuba and, towards the end, on a drunken bassoon, we may deduce that he had a certain Falstaffian weight."〔
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