Le Chasseur Maudit César Franck / Arr. Donald W. Stauffer

Titel / Title: Le Chasseur Maudit
Herausgeber / Publisher: Barnhouse
Instrumentation: Concert Band
Produkttyp / Product: Partitur + Stimmen
Erscheinungsdatum / Date of Production: 23

Le Chasseur maudit (The Accursed Huntsman) is a symphonic poem by César Franck. The sections of the work are:

The Peaceful Sunday Landscape
The Hunt
The Curse
The Demons' Chase

It was inspired by the ballad Der wilde Jäger (The Wild Hunter) by the German poet Gottfried August Bürger. It tells the story of a Count of the Rhine who dares to go hunting on a Sunday morning, in violation of the Sabbath. As the piece begins, the count defiantly sounds his hunting horn, despite the warnings of the church bells and sacred chants which call the faithful to worship. Deep in the woods, the count is cursed by a terrible voice which condemns him to be pursued by demons for eternity.