The Onstage Instrumental Musician as Theatre Performer

“Nicht mehr.” No more. This phrase is strategically written throughout the score of the last movement of Joseph Haydn’s Symphony 45 in F# minor (1772), and it signals the musicians, in groups of twos and threes, to rise, blow out the music stand candle, and walk off stage. This ritual is repeated un...

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