Overture to Scenes from Goethe's "Faust" from WoO 3 [wind parts] 10.044/05 and passages with altered notes

and passages with altered notes

was used as the source

include lively illustrations

for which Bach reverted to a proven model: The four voices of the solo ensemble take over the chorale

Overture to Scenes from Goethe's "Faust" from WoO 3 [wind parts] 10.044/05 and passages with altered notesThe Faust Overture in its First Urtext Edition The questionWhy add music to such perfect poetry? preoccupied Schumann long and intensively. His first compositional approach to GoethesFaust began in 1844, but it was not until 1851 that he finally completed the Scenes. At Liszts suggestion, Schumann added an overture in 1853, a symphonicinstrumental introduction which atmospherically evokes the action of the Scenes but has no direct thematic reference