Scene From Faust (Pushkin)
Scene from Faust (usually understood as Goethe's ''Faust'') may refer to: * '' Scene from Faust (Pushkin)'' (Russian: ''Сцена из Фауста'') — work of Alexander Pushkin * '' Scene from Faust (Schubert)'' (German: ''Szene aus ‘Faust’'') — composition by Franz Schubert * ''Scenes from Goethe's Faust'' (German: ''Szenen aus Goethes Faust'') – composition by Robert Schumann Robert Schumann (; 8 June 181029 July 1856) was a German composer, pianist, and influential music critic. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era. Schumann left the study of law, intending to pursue a career a ...

Faust
Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend based on the historical Johann Georg Faust ( 1480–1540). The erudite Faust is highly successful yet dissatisfied with his life, which leads him to make a pact with the Devil at a crossroads, exchanging his soul for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures. The Faust legend has been the basis for many literary, artistic, cinematic, and musical works that have reinterpreted it through the ages. "Faust" and the adjective "Faustian" imply sacrificing spiritual values for power, knowledge, or material gain. The Faust of early books—as well as the ballads, dramas, movies, and puppet-plays which grew out of them—is irrevocably damned because he prefers human knowledge over divine knowledge: "he laid the Holy Scriptures behind the door and under the bench, refused to be called doctor of theology, but preferred to be styled doctor of medicine". Plays and comic puppet theatre loosely based on this legend were popular throughout ...
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Goethe's Faust
''Faust'' is a tragic play in two parts by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, usually known in English as '' Faust, Part One'' and ''Faust, Part Two''. Nearly all of Part One and the majority of Part Two are written in rhymed verse. Although rarely staged in its entirety, it is the play with the largest audience numbers on German-language stages. ''Faust'' is considered by many to be Goethe's ''magnum opus'' and the greatest work of German literature. The earliest forms of the work, known as the ''Urfaust'', were developed between 1772 and 1775; however, the details of that development are not entirely clear. ''Urfaust'' has twenty-two scenes, one in prose, two largely prose and the remaining 1,441 lines in rhymed verse. The manuscript is lost, but a copy was discovered in 1886. The first appearance of the work in print was ''Faust, a Fragment'', published in 1790. Goethe completed a preliminary version of what is now known as ''Part One'' in 1806. Its publication in 1808 was follow ...
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Scene From Faust (Pushkin)
Scene from Faust (usually understood as Goethe's ''Faust'') may refer to: * '' Scene from Faust (Pushkin)'' (Russian: ''Сцена из Фауста'') — work of Alexander Pushkin * '' Scene from Faust (Schubert)'' (German: ''Szene aus ‘Faust’'') — composition by Franz Schubert * ''Scenes from Goethe's Faust'' (German: ''Szenen aus Goethes Faust'') – composition by Robert Schumann Robert Schumann (; 8 June 181029 July 1856) was a German composer, pianist, and influential music critic. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era. Schumann left the study of law, intending to pursue a career a ...

Alexander Pushkin
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (; rus, links=no, Александр Сергеевич ПушкинIn pre-Revolutionary script, his name was written ., r=Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin, p=ɐlʲɪkˈsandr sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈpuʂkʲɪn, a=ru-Pushkin.ogg; ) was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era.Basker, Michael. Pushkin and Romanticism. In Ferber, Michael, ed., ''A Companion to European Romanticism''. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005. He is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poetShort biography from University of Virginia
. Retrieved 24 November 2006.Allan Rei ...
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Scene From Faust (Schubert)
Franz Schubert's best-known music for the theatre is his incidental music for '' Rosamunde''. Less successful were his many opera and Singspiel projects. On the other hand, some of his most popular Lieder, like " Gretchen am Spinnrade," were based on texts written for the theatre. Incidental music and overtures for the theatre Overture for ''Der Teufel als Hydraulicus'' D 4, Overture to the vocal comedy ''Der Teufel als Hydraulicus'' for orchestra (1812?) ''Die Zauberharfe'' D 644, Music for Zauberspiel ''Die Zauberharfe'' for tenor, six spoken roles, mixed choir and orchestra (1820, in three acts: overtures to the first and third acts, and thirteen numbers; overture to the first act known as the "Rosamunde" Overture, also used in D 797) :: Act 1 ::: Overture ::: 1. Chor der Troubadours: Harfentöne laßt erklingen ::: 2. Chor der Troubadours und Ritter: Zum Saal, der goldne Becher blinkt ::: 3. Melodram ::: 4. Finale I: Ida gib ein Zeichen :: Act 2 ::: 5. Chor der Troubadours u ...
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Franz Schubert
Franz Peter Schubert (; 31 January 179719 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. Despite his short lifetime, Schubert left behind a vast ''oeuvre'', including more than 600 secular vocal works (mainly lieder), seven complete symphonies, sacred music, opera Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers. Such a "work" (the literal translation of the Italian word "opera") is typically a collaboration between a composer and a libr ...s, incidental music, and a large body of piano and chamber music. His major works include "Erlkönig (Schubert), Erlkönig" (D. 328), the Trout Quintet, Piano Quintet in A major, D. 667 (''Trout Quintet''), the Symphony No. 8 (Schubert), Symphony No. 8 in B minor, D. 759 (''Unfinished Symphony''), the Symphony No. 9 (Schubert), "Great" Symphony No. 9 in C major, D. 944, the String Quintet (Schubert), String Quintet (D. 956), ...
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Scenes From Goethe's Faust
''Scenes from Goethe's Faust'' (''Szenen aus Goethes Faust'') is a musical-theatrical work by composer Robert Schumann. The work has been described as the height of his accomplishments in the realm of dramatic music.John Daverio: "Schumann, Robert", ''Grove Music Online'' ed. L. Macy (Accessed October 26, 2007), . The work was written between 1844 and 1853 and is scored for SATB chorus, boys' chorus, orchestra, and a number of solo parts which, even with doubling, require seven solo singers, although eight (three sopranos, two mezzos, one tenor, one baritone, and one bass) is the usual number for a performance. Schumann never saw all three parts of the work performed in the same concert, or published together. Eric Sams comments 'There is no coherence in the orchestration, which audibly dates from two different periods (hand-horns in Part III, valve-horns elsewhere)', leading him to conclude that Schumann did not conceive the work as a whole, although late nineteenth-century ideas ...
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