Cello excerpt
Wagner, Die Walküre, Act III opening
Lebhaft
The galloping low-string ostinato under the famous valkyrie theme.
At a glance
- Instrument
- Cello
- Composer
- Richard Wagner
- Work
- Die Walküre, Act III opening
- Movement
- Lebhaft
- Era
- Late-Romantic (c. 1880–1910)
- Composed
- 1870
- Key
- B
- Metre
- 9/8
- Tempo
- Lebhaft · ♩ ≈ 88
- Clef
- Bass clef
- Level
- Intermediate, university level
- Audition list
- Not a standard excerpt
How to practise it
The bow style, the trouble spots, and the stylistic decisions that come up most often on this excerpt.
Bowing
Driving, relentless gallop. Accent every downbeat.
Tags
Work on the technique underneath
Arco's cello curriculum builds the bow strokes, positions, and clef reading this excerpt assumes, with recorded cello playback throughout.