''Soldaten'' is a 1930 opera in 3 acts by Manfred Gurlitt after the play of Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz. It was premiered 9 November 1930, Düsseldorf, but later overshadowed by Bernd Alois Zimmermann's setting of '' Die Soldaten'' (1965).Larry Sitsky Music of the Twentieth-century Avant-garde: A Biocritical Sourcebook 0313296898 - 2002 " to the possibilities of Lenz's Soldaten, a text already explored over twenty years earlier by Manfred Gurlitt."

Recordings

*''Soldaten'', Burt, Wesener, Barainsky, Müller, Mohr, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Deutsches SO Berlin, Gerd Albrecht 1998 Orfeo

References

1930 operas German-language operas Operas by Manfred Gurlitt Operas Operas based on plays {{German-opera-stub