Franz Schubert by Wilhelm August Rieder 1875

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singspiel A Singspiel (; plural: ; ) is a form of German-language music drama, now regarded as a genre of opera. It is characterized by spoken dialogue, which is alternated with ensembles, songs, ballads, and arias which were often strophic, or folk-like ...

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 wor ...

to a libretto by Theodor Körner written for 's (1784–1814) opera of the same title that premiered in 1813 in Vienna's

Theater an der Wien The is a historic theatre in Vienna located on the Left Wienzeile in the Mariahilf district. Completed in 1801, the theatre has hosted the premieres of many celebrated works of theatre, opera, and symphonic music. Since 2006, it has served prima ...

. Elizabeth Norman McKay: ''Franz Schubert's music for the theatre'', 1991, p. 107: "The librettist was the popular young German patriotic poet, Theodor Körner (1791–1813), who was killed tragically early, at the age ... and 20 August in a musical version by Karl Steinacker at the Theater an der Wien. Schubert had met Körner socially early in 1813 ..." Written in 1815 when Schubert was 18 years old, it was first performed on 23 September 1896, 67 years after Schubert's death, at the Dresden Court Opera. The work consists of an

overture Overture (from French ''ouverture'', "opening") in music was originally the instrumental introduction to a ballet, opera, or oratorio in the 17th century. During the early Romantic era, composers such as Beethoven and Mendelssohn composed overt ...

and eight numbers for

soprano A soprano () is a type of classical female singing voice and has the highest vocal range of all voice types. The soprano's vocal range (using scientific pitch notation) is from approximately middle C (C4) = 261 Hz to "high A" (A5) = 880&n ...

, three

tenor A tenor is a type of classical music, classical male singing human voice, voice whose vocal range lies between the countertenor and baritone voice types. It is the highest male chest voice type. The tenor's vocal range extends up to C5. The lo ...

s, bass, one spoken role, mixed choir and orchestra: :: # # # # # (a version for voice and piano is also extant) # # #

Recordings

* Christoph Spering, Capriccio

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Vierjahrige Posten, Der 1815 operas German-language operas Operas by Franz Schubert Operas One-act operas