Aaron Copland (1900-1990)

Lincoln Portrait (1942)

for narrator and orchestra

  • General information
    • Composition date: 1942
    • Duration: 14 mn
    • Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes
    • Libretto (details, author):

      discours d'Abraham Lincoln

Detailed formation
  • soloist: narrator
  • 2 flutes (also 1 piccolo), 2 oboes, English horn [ad lib.] , 2 clarinets, bass clarinet [ad lib.] , 2 bassoons, contrabassoon [ad lib.] , 4 horns, 3 trumpets [ou 2] , 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, 4 percussionists, harp, celesta [ad lib.] , strings

Premiere information

  • Date: 14 May 1942
    Location:

    États-Unis, Cincinnati


    Performers:

    William Adams et l'Orchestre symphonique de Cincinnati, direction : André Kostelanetz.