# Hansel and Gretel (Haensel und Gretel): Song of the Sandman, Evening Prayer and Dream Pantomime: Light Opera, Orchestra Accompaniment, Score and Parts

- **Brand:** Alfred Music
- **Price:** $80.00
- **Catalog:** alfred
- **Retailer:** alfred
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- **GTIN:** 660355012877

## Summary

Sheet music score and parts for Hansel and Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel) featuring Song of the Sandman, Evening Prayer, and Dream Pantomime, composed by Engelbert Humperdinck for vocal soli and orchestra.

## Description

In 1890, Engelbert Humperdinck (1854-1921) wrote an assortment of songs for a play written by Adelheid Wette, his sister, as a gift to her children. Spurred by his friend Richard Strauss, he took some musical ideas from this collection and created HANSEL AND GRETEL (HÄNSEL UND GRETEL), a full-length opera based on the Grimm brothers' fairy tale. Completed in 1893, it received its first performance on December 23, 1893 at the Hoftheater in Weimar under the direction of Strauss. As a result, popular opinion has enduringly identified it with the Christmas season. In Act 2, the two children try to find their way out of a darkening forest and meet the Sandman, who makes them drowsy by placing grains of sand into their eyes. Before they fall asleep, they sing the celebrated Evening Prayer. In the dream pantomime which follows, a host of fourteen angels gather to watch over the slumbering children. Instrumentation: 2+Picc.1+EH.2.2: 4.2.3.1: Timp:Perc(2): Hp: Str (4.4.3.3.3 in set): Vocal Soli (3 roles S S MS).

## Categories

- **Categories:** Shipped

## Enrichment

- **Type:** sheet music
- **Type Synonyms:** musical score, orchestra score
- **Tags:** printed music, opera score, classical music
- **Category Path:** Media > Sheet Music
- **Music genre:** Opera
- **Canonical Brand:** Alfred Music

## Images

- ![Image 1](https://cdn.octogen.ai/9b2a64a810fa62ecdf8db63b242cdf34/3f2ab6de39aaf4706c5f35f7c3fb855b.png)

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