Instrumentation
Tristan und Isolde is scored for the following instruments:
- 3 flutes (one doubles piccolo), 2 oboes, cor anglais, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, 3 bassoons
- 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, bass tuba
- timpani, cymbals, triangle, tambourine
- harp
- 1st and 2nd violins, violas, violoncellos, and double basses (Die Streichinstrumente sind vorzüglich gut und stark zu besetzen.)
on-stage
- cor anglais, 6 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones
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