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''Ulenspiegel'' is an opera by
Walter Braunfels Walter Braunfels (; 19 December 1882 – 19 March 1954) was a German composer, pianist, and music educator. Life Walter Braunfels was born in Frankfurt. His first music teacher was his mother, the great-niece of the composer Louis Spohr. He c ...
to a libretto by the composer after
Charles de Coster Charles-Theodore-Henri De Coster (20 August 1827 – 7 May 1879) was a Belgian novelist whose efforts laid the basis for a native Belgian literature. Early life and education He was born in Munich; his father, Augustin De Coster, was a nati ...
's ''
The Legend of Thyl Ulenspiegel and Lamme Goedzak ''The Legend of Thyl Ulenspiegel and Lamme Goedzak'' (french: La Légende et les Aventures héroïques, joyeuses et glorieuses d'Ulenspiegel et de Lamme Goedzak au pays de Flandres et ailleurs, "The Legend and the Heroic, Joyous and Glorious Adv ...
''. It premiered in Stuttgart's Hoftheater on 4 November 1913. Operas in German: a dictionary - Page 335
Margaret Ross Griffel Margaret Ross Griffel (born 9 July 1943) is an American musicologist and author. Biography Griffel graduated from High School of Music & Art, in Manhattan, New York in 1961. She earned a B.A. from Barnard College in 1965, M.A. in European and A ...
- 1990
Braunfels' work was banned during the Nazi era and the first revival of ''Ulenspiegel'' took place 28 January 2011 in
Gera Gera is a city in the German state of Thuringia. With around 93,000 inhabitants, it is the third-largest city in Thuringia after Erfurt and Jena as well as the easternmost city of the ''Thüringer Städtekette'', an almost straight string of cit ...
.


Recording

*DVD - Marc Horus, Christa Ratzenböck, Joachim Goltz, Hans-Peter Scheidegger, Saeyoung Park, Laszlo Kiss, EntArteOpera Choir, Israel Chamber Orchestra, Martin Sieghart.


References

{{authority control Operas 1913 operas Operas by Walter Braunfels Till Eulenspiegel Operas based on novels Adaptations of works by Charles De Coster