- Composer: Kapp, Eugen
- Years: 26.05.1908 - 29.10.1996
- Title: Music for William Shakespeare’s play „Hamlet“
- Genre: Music to plays
- Instrumentation: soloists, symphony orchestra: 2232, 2220, percussion (1+6), harp, strings; or wind orchestra
- Number of movements: 31
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Titles of movements:
1. Prelude
Act I
2. Scene I. Appearing of the King and the Court
3. Leaving of the King
4. Leaving of Hamlet
5. Prelude to the Scene III
6. Spirit Appearing Music
7. Prelude to the Scene IV
8. Scene V. Music of the Celebrating King
9. Spirit Appearing Music
10. Ending Music of Scene V
11. Scene VII. Entering of the King
12. Actors' Signal
Act II
13. Prelude to the Scene VIII
14. VIII Scene. Hamlet Appears Before His Monologue "To Be or Not To Be)
15. Prelude to the Scene X. Danish March
16. Actors' Signal
17. Parody of the King and the Queen
18. Hamlet Blows the Whistle
19. XII Scene. During the King's Praying
20. Prelude to the Act III, Scene XV. Norwegian March
Act III
21. For the Leaving of Norwegian Soldiers
22. Songs of Ophelia
23. Scene XVII. Rebellion Music
24. Song of Ophelia
25a. Song of Ophelia
25b. Scene XVII. Queens Tale About Ophelia's Death
26. Scene XIX Scene. Songs of the Gravediggers
27. Ophelia's Funeral Song
28. Scene XXI. Coming Out of the King
29. Bugles and Cannon Shots Behind the Stage While the King Is Drinking
30. Norwegian March
31. Funeral March of the Hamlet - Text: William Shakespeare
- Incipit (lyrics): Kuidas ma Sind kallimat tunnen teiste seas?
- Year: 1945/1948.
Manuscripts
- Type of manuscript: Author manuscript
- Sort: Score
- Composer: Kapp, Eugen
- Work: Music for William Shakespeare’s play „Hamlet“
- Number of pages: 86
- Date:
- Status: Finished
- Draft: Yes
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Location:
Estonian Theatre and Music Museum
- Number: ETMM_11369 M 99:2/23
- Additional notes: soloists, symphony orchestra: 2232, 2220, percussion (1+6), harp, strings
- Type of manuscript: Copy of manuscript
- Sort: Score
- Composer: Kapp, Eugen
- Work: Music for William Shakespeare’s play „Hamlet“
- Number of pages: 22
- Date: 29.06.1949
- Status: Finished
- Draft: Yes
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Location:
Estonian Theatre and Music Museum
- Number: ETMM_5644 M 99:2/24
- Additional notes: arrangement for wind orchestra by Rein Ploom (parts No. 1, 2, 3, 8, 11, 12, 15, 17, 20, 23, 27 and 31)
- Type of manuscript: Copy of manuscript
- Sort: Piano score
- Composer: Kapp, Eugen
- Work: Music for William Shakespeare’s play „Hamlet“
- Number of pages: 36
- Date:
- Status: Finished
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Location:
Estonian Theatre and Music Museum
- Number: ETMM_5644 M 99:2/24
- Additional notes: piano redaction of symphony orchestra
- Type of manuscript: Copy of manuscript
- Sort: Orhestral parts
- Composer: Kapp, Eugen
- Work: Music for William Shakespeare’s play „Hamlet“
- Number of pages: 100
- Date:
- Status: Finished
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Location:
Estonian Theatre and Music Museum
- Number: ETMM_5644 M 99:2/24
- Additional notes: wind orchestra parts (arrangement by Rein Ploom)
- Type of manuscript: Author manuscript , Copy of manuscript
- Sort: Orhestral parts
- Composer: Kapp, Eugen
- Work: Music for William Shakespeare’s play „Hamlet“
- Number of pages: 240
- Date:
- Status: Finished
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Location:
Estonian Theatre and Music Museum
- Number: ETMM_11369 M 99:2/25
- Additional notes: parts of symphony orchestra
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