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| | Verdi: Overture to ``La Forza del Destino'' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) |
 | | The overture dates from the 1869 revision and is scored for flute, piccolo, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, cimbasso (a type of tuba), tympani, bass drum, and strings. |
 | | La Forza del Destino (``The Force of Destiny'') was Verdi's first ``foreign'' commission in nearly 25 years. |
 | | Seven years later, at the urging of his publisher, Verdi returned to La Forza in an attempt to find what he called ``that damned ending.'' This time he was successful, redesigning the four acts so that each had a distinctly different character. |
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