Who composed the Manfred overture?
Manfred (Schumann) Manfred (Schumann) Manfred: Dramatic Poem with Music in Three Parts (Opus 115) [German: "Manfred. Dramatisches Gedicht in drei Abtheilungen"], is a work of incidental music by Robert Schumann. The work is based on the poem "Manfred" by Lord Byron and consists of an overture, an entracte, melodramas, and several solos and choruses. Written primarily in 1848, it was first performed at the Gewandhaus concert at Leipzig on March 14, 1852. The most highly regarded piece in the work is the Overture. Composer Hugo Wolf wrote that the work "has brought the essence, the focal point of the drama to plastic
Manfred Symphony Manfred Symphony The "Manfred" Symphony in B minor, Op. 58, is a programmatic symphony composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky between May and September 1885. It is based on the poem "Manfred" written by Lord Byron in 1817. It is the only one of Tchaikovsky's symphonies he completed that is not numbered (the Symphony in E flat is a conjectural work left unfinished by the composer) and was written between the Fourth and Fifth Symphonies. Like the fantasy-overture "Romeo and Juliet", Tchaikovsky wrote the "Manfred" Symphony at the behest of the nationalist composer Mily Balakirev, who provided a program written by