Instrumentation
The orchestra consists of the following:
- woodwinds: piccolo, 3 flutes (3rd doubling piccolo), 3 oboes, English horn, 3 clarinets in E-flat and B-flat, bass clarinet in B-flat, 3 bassoons, contrabassoon
- brass: 6 horns in F, 4 trumpets in C, 3 trombones, 2 tubas
- percussion: timpani (2 players), bass drum, cymbals, triangle, glockenspiel, bell on low E
- keyboard: organ
- strings: 2 harps, violins i, ii (16 each), violas (12), cellos (12), double basses (8) (several with low C string).
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