Don Carlos - Instrumentation

Instrumentation

  • Strings: violins, violas, cellos, double basses
  • Woodwinds: piccolo (doubling on flute), 2 flutes, 2 oboes (2nd doubling on English horn), 2 clarinets, 4 bassoons
  • Brass: 4 horns, 3 cornet à pistons, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, cimbasso
  • Percussion: timpani, bass drum, cymbals, triangle, bells in F sharp and E flat
  • Other: harp
  • On-stage: clarinet in D, 2 clarinets in A, 4 horns, 2 flugelhorns, 2 trumpets, bass flugelhorn, 3 trombones, bombardon, double bass, harmonium, harp

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