ADLAIS - Specialist Publishers of Harp Sheet Music
Section Score for Solo Harp Click here to return to index

Title

La Source – Am Springbrunnen

Composer /
Arranger

Albert Zabel
ed. Ann Griffiths
Catalogue No. 069
ISMN M-57032-022-6
Price £7.00
Edition/Format 2003 - A4
Grade, level Grade 8
LCM DipLCM in Performance (2007-08)
TRINITY Pedal Harp Performer's Certificate (2004-2006) Group B
For Pedal Harp
Notes

La Source is probably the best known of Albert Zabel’s compositions for the harp.

Born in Berlin on 22 February 1834, Albert Heinrich Zabel studied the harp at that city’s Institut für Kirchen- musik, where his teacher was Louis Grimm, a former student of the English-born virtuoso, Elias Parish Alvars. Zabel’s concert career began at an early age, when he toured Germany, Russia and England as a member of an ensemble directed by Johann Gungl, who, in 1848, settled in St Petersburg. From 1848-1851, Zabel was solo harpist with the Berlin Opera, but in 1855, he too moved to St Petersburg, becoming solo harpist with the Imperial Ballet – a post which he held to the end of his life. It is therefore likely that he was the first harpist to play in such Tchaikovsky ballet scores as ‘Sleeping Beauty’ and ‘The Nutcracker’, and it is possible that it was his style of harp playing which inspired the brilliant cadenzas Tchaikovsky included in these ballets.

Harp teacher at Anton Rubinstein’s St Petersburg Con-servatory from its inception in 1862, Zabel was named Professor in 1879, and honorary distinguished professor in 1904. His late works include a comprehensive ‘Method’ (1900) and a Concerto in C minor (1904-5).

Sound sample Coming soon, in meantime please see "Recordings of this Music" below  
Buy Now Go to Shop
Cover Image
Cover
Top Audio sample from score Sample of cover Sample of sheet music Recordings from score
Score sample
example of the music
Top Audio sample from score Sample of cover Sample of sheet music Recordings from score
Known recordings of this music (links are to Creighton's Collection)
Click for further information Hiraeth by Eleri Darkins
Click image to go to Creighton's Collection where you can listen to audio clips from the CD.
Recording available from Creighton's Collection The Eternal Dreamer by David Watkins
Click image to go to Creighton's Collection where you can listen to audio clips from the CD.
Other recordings include Marisa Robles, Caryl Thomas, Susan Drake (details to be posted soon)
Please note that not all recordings are identical to Adlais scores, some may be the artist own arrangements either from an Adlais score or from another source
Page updated October 22, 2007