Grand March, from Aida (cello duo)

Title: Grand March, from the opera Aida

Composer: Giuseppe Verdi, arr. David Gable

Instrumentation: Two Cellos

Printout: 2 pages

Note: The best-known section of Verdi’s Grand March from Aida, the part with the trumpet solo, is lightly scored and sounds great on two instruments. At this point in the opera, according to the score, the “Egyptian troops process before the king preceded by fanfares”. The Grand March is also known as the Triumphal March.

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More Verdi for two cellos:

La donna è mobile, from Rigoletto
Soldier’s Chorus (Part I – “Or co’ dadi), from Il Trovatore
Un di felice, eterea, from La Traviata
Va Pensiero, from Nabucco