Carl Borromäus von Miltitz (; 9 November 1781 – 19 January 1845) was a German composer, poet, and short story writer.

Life

Miltitz was born in

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on 9 November 1781. He held a literary circle at his ancestral castle

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for about six years from 1811, with several leading writers of the time, including

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Johann August Apel Johann August Apel (17 September 1771 – 9 August 1816) was a German writer and jurist. Apel was born and died in Leipzig. Influence "" was Apel's version of the Freischütz folktale, and it was published as the first story of the first vo ...

and E. T. A. Hoffmann. He was also a patron of artists, several of whom were commissioned to paint the castle, such as Ernst Ferdinand Oehme, Thomas Fearnley,

Johan Christian Clausen Dahl Johan Christian Claussen Dahl (24 February 178814 October 1857), often known as or , was a Danish-Norwegians, Norwegian artist who is considered the first great romantic painter in Norway, the founder of the "golden age" of Norwegian painting. H ...

and

Caspar David Friedrich Caspar David Friedrich (; 5 September 1774 – 7 May 1840) was a German Romanticism, German Romantic Landscape painting, landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation, whose often symbolic, and anti ...

. In 1823‚ he dined with American diplomat and writer

Washington Irving Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859) was an American short-story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. He wrote the short stories "Rip Van Winkle" (1819) and "The Legend of Sleepy ...

in Dresden. Miltitz' brother Alexander was ambassador to

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, and wrote a highly regarded book, ''The Manual of Consuls''.

Works

; Operas * ''Saul'' * ''Czerny Georg'' ; Incidental music * ''

The Bride of Messina ''The Bride of Messina'' (, ) is a tragedy by Friedrich Schiller; it premiered on 19 March 1803 in Weimar. It is one of the most controversial works by Schiller, due to his use of elements from Greek tragedies (which were considered obsolete at t ...

'' unpublished overture (1838) ; * "

Erlkönig "Erlkönig" is a German poetry, poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. It depicts the death of a child assailed by a supernatural being, the Erlking, a king of the fairy, fairies. It was originally written by Goethe as part of a 1782 ''Singspiel' ...

" based on the poem (1835) ; Short stories * "Der Bergmönch" ('The Mountain Monk') in ''Wunderbuch'' (volume 3, 1817) * "Muhme Bleich" ('Aunt Pale') in ''Wunderbuch'' (volume 3, 1817) * "Friedbert" ('Friedbert') in ''Wunderbuch'' (volume 3, 1817) * "Die zwölf Nächte" ('The Twelve Nights') in ''Aus der Geisterwelt'' (volume 1, 1818) * "Die Todtenrache" ('The Revenge of the Dead') in ''Aus der Geisterwelt'' (volume 2, 1818)

References

External links

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International Music Score Library Project The International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP), also known as the Petrucci Music Library after publisher Ottaviano Petrucci, is a subscription-based digital library of public-domain music scores. The project uses MediaWiki software, and ...

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