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Wenzel Müller
Wenzel Müller (26 September 1767 – 3 August 1835) was an Austrian composer and Conducting, conductor. He is regarded as the most prolific opera composer of all time with his 166 operas. Life and career Müller was born in Městečko Trnávka, Markt Türnau, in Moravia. He studied with Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf and performed as a theatre musician in his youth. In 1786 he became Kapellmeister at the Theater in der Leopoldstadt in Leopoldstadt, Vienna. After several years at the German theatre in Prague from 1807 until 1813, he returned to Leopoldstadt, where he worked until 1830. Under his leadership, the theatre became one of the most important venues in Viennese musical life. He died in Baden bei Wien. He was a popular and prolific composer, producing more than 250 works. Although he wrote several popular stage works (mostly Singspiele), his art songs are his enduring legacy. Often possessing witty music and lyrics or expressing a great deal of tenderness, Müller's songs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brno
Brno ( , ; ) is a Statutory city (Czech Republic), city in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. Located at the confluence of the Svitava (river), Svitava and Svratka (river), Svratka rivers, Brno has about 403,000 inhabitants, making it the second-largest city in the Czech Republic after the capital, Prague, and one of the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, 100 largest cities of the European Union. The Brno metropolitan area has approximately 730,000 inhabitants. Brno is the former capital city of Moravia and the political and cultural hub of the South Moravian Region. It is the centre of the Judiciary of the Czech Republic, Czech judiciary, with the seats of the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic, Constitutional Court, the Supreme Court of the Czech Republic, Supreme Court, the Supreme Administrative Court of the Czech Republic, Supreme Administrative Court, and the Supreme Public Prosecutor's Office, and a number of state ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Branscombe
Peter John Branscombe (7 December 1929 – 31 December 2008) was an English academic in German studies, a musicologist, and a writer on Austrian cultural history. Background Peter John Branscombe was born in Sittingbourne, Kent, on 7 December 1929. He attended Dulwich College where he showed talent as cricket player. Having served his military service in Vienna, Austria, he studied literature at Worcester College, Oxford. There, he became acquainted with notable Austrian émigrés such as the composer Egon Wellesz and the musicologist Otto Erich Deutsch. Career After a brief stint at Lancing College, Branscombe joined the University of St Andrews' faculty of German Studies in 1959, a post he kept until the end of his life. In 1979, he founded St Andrews' Institute for Austrian Studies, the only such research facility in the United Kingdom. His interests included the popular theatre of the Biedermeier and the Viennese suburban theatre with authors like Raimund and Nestroy. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Posse Mit Gesang
("farce with singing", plural: ) is a form of popular German-language music drama, that developed in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Early examples are sometimes called or . It is also sometimes referred to simply as (farce). Associated with Vienna, and also Berlin and Hamburg, the was similar to the Singspiel, but generally had more action and less music than the more operatic form. Viennese examples included Ferdinand Raimund's of 1828 and many of the works of Johann Nestroy. Composers who contributed music for included Wenzel Müller, Conradin Kreutzer, and Philip Jakob Riotte. Some 20th-century examples of posse written by Walter Kollo were (1912) and (1913). More specialized examples of the genre were (daily life themes), (magic), (personalities), (situations), and (parodies). Other examples of *1820: by Franz Schubert, Vienna, Theater am Kärntnertor *1826: by Wenzel Müller, Vienna, Theater in der Leopoldstadt *1842: by Johann Nestroy (text) and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zauberspiel
''Zauberspiel'' (magic play, plural: ''Zauberspiele'') or ''Zauberstück'' (magic piece, plural: ''Zauberstücke'') is a German-language work for the stage that has magic characters or magic action, or both. These plays were popular in the 18th and 19th centuries in the south of the German-speaking area, particularly in Vienna. They drew on earlier traditions including the chivalric romances of medieval and early modern times, the medieval mystery plays, and plays such as Shakespeare's '' A Midsummer Night's Dream'' and ''The Tempest ''The Tempest'' is a Shakespeare's plays, play by William Shakespeare, probably written in 1610–1611, and thought to be one of the last plays that he wrote alone. After the first scene, which takes place on a ship at sea during a tempest, th ...''. They were notable for their stage effects."Zaubers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zauberposse
This is a glossary list of opera genres, giving alternative names. "Opera" is an Italian word (short for "opera in musica"); it was not at first ''commonly'' used in Italy (or in other countries) to refer to the genre of particular works. Most composers used more precise designations to present their work to the public. Often specific genres of opera were commissioned by theatres or patrons (in which case the form of the work might deviate more or less from the genre norm, depending on the inclination of the composer). Opera genres are not exclusive. Some operas are regarded as belonging to several. Definitions Opera genres have been defined in different ways, not always in terms of stylistic rules. Some, like opera seria, refer to traditions identified by later historians,McClymonds, Marita P and Heartz, Daniel: "Opera seria" in ''The New Grove Dictionary of Opera'', ed. Stanley Sadie (London, 1992) and others, like Zeitoper, have been defined by their own inventors. Other forms ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adolf Bäuerle
Adolf Bäuerle (real name Johann Andreas Bäuerle (9 or 10 April 1786 – 20 September 1859) was an Austrian writer, publisher and main representative of the . Life Born in Vienna, 1802 Bäuerle made his debut with the novel ''Sigmund der Stählerne'', which, however, was rejected. After his school time in Vienna Bäuerle got a job as a court official. At the age of eighteen Bäuerle founded the ''Wiener Theaterzeitung'' in 1804. Until 1847 it was the most widely circulated newspaper in Austria. Between 1808 and 1828 Bäuerle worked in Vienna as a secretary at the Leopoldstädter Theater and favoured the '' Volkstheater'' by virtue of his office. From 1828 he was almost exclusively active in the editorial office of his ''Theaterzeitung'' and engaged the witty writer Moritz Gottlieb Saphir. After the death of his first wife in 1828 he married the actress on 3 May 1829, with whom he already had a relationship for years before. In 1848 he founded the magazine ''Die Geißel'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josef Alois Gleich
Josef Alois Gleich (also Joseph Alois Gleich; pseudonyms Adolph Blum, Ludwig Dellarosa, Heinrich Walden; 14 September 1772 – 10 February 1841)"Gleich, Familie" ''Oesterreiches Musiklexikon Online''. Retrieved 9 March 2021. was an Austrian civil servant, and a prolific dramatist and novelist. Life Gleich was born in Vienna in 1772, son of a clerk. At the he studied philosophy, languages and public accounting, and entered the civil service. From 1790 to 1831 he was employed in provincial accounting of |
Zauberoper
This is a glossary list of opera genres, giving alternative names. "Opera" is an Italian word (short for "opera in musica"); it was not at first ''commonly'' used in Italy (or in other countries) to refer to the genre of particular works. Most composers used more precise designations to present their work to the public. Often specific genres of opera were commissioned by theatres or patrons (in which case the form of the work might deviate more or less from the genre norm, depending on the inclination of the composer). Opera genres are not exclusive. Some operas are regarded as belonging to several. Definitions Opera genres have been defined in different ways, not always in terms of stylistic rules. Some, like opera seria, refer to traditions identified by later historians,McClymonds, Marita P and Heartz, Daniel: "Opera seria" in ''The New Grove Dictionary of Opera'', ed. Stanley Sadie (London, 1992) and others, like Zeitoper, have been defined by their own inventors. Other forms ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Ludwig Costenoble
Karl Ludwig Costenoble, also ''Carl Ludwig Costenoble'', (25 December 1769 – 28 August 1837) was a German stage actor, theatre director and writer. Life Born in Herford, Costenoble was the son of a Reformed cathedral preacher. He eluded his planned appointment as clergyman by fleeing to Magdeburg. He joined several travelling stages as an actor before he got firm engagements in Bayreuth, Salzburg and finally Hamburg, where he made his debut on 10 March 1801 and played until 1818 as audience favourite, occupying different fields from singer to character actor and comedian. Among his most famous roles were Shylock in Shakespeare's ''The Merchant of Venice'' and the monk in Lessings' ''Nathan the Wise''. In 1818, Costenoble was appointed to the Burgtheater in Vienna, whose ensemble he belonged to until his death. The celebrated actor was also active as a director here. Costenoble died on one of his numerous tours on his way home to Prague from a guest performance in Hamburg. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schauspiel Mit Gesang
This is a glossary list of opera genres, giving alternative names. "Opera" is an Italian word (short for "opera in musica"); it was not at first ''commonly'' used in Italy (or in other countries) to refer to the genre of particular works. Most composers used more precise designations to present their work to the public. Often specific genres of opera were commissioned by theatres or patrons (in which case the form of the work might deviate more or less from the genre norm, depending on the inclination of the composer). Opera genres are not exclusive. Some operas are regarded as belonging to several. Definitions Opera genres have been defined in different ways, not always in terms of stylistic rules. Some, like opera seria, refer to traditions identified by later historians,McClymonds, Marita P and Heartz, Daniel: "Opera seria" in ''The New Grove Dictionary of Opera'', ed. Stanley Sadie (London, 1992) and others, like Zeitoper, have been defined by their own inventors. Other forms ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philipp Hafner
Philipp Hafner (September 27, 1735 (some sources say 1731) - July 30, 1764) was an Austrian farce writer, born in Vienna Vienna ( ; ; ) is the capital city, capital, List of largest cities in Austria, most populous city, and one of Federal states of Austria, nine federal states of Austria. It is Austria's primate city, with just over two million inhabitants. .... He also wrote under the pseudonyms K. Fiedelbogen, J. Wustio, and Phakipinpler. His principal works are the following: ''Der alte Odoardo und der lächerliche Hanswurst'' (1755); ''Die reisenden Komödianten'' (1774), a comedy full of wit and humor; ''Dramatische Unterhaltungen ůnter guten Freuden'' (1774). His collected comedies were published by Joseph Sonnleithner in 1812 (Vienna). External links Some biographical information References ---- * Austrian male writers 1730s births 1764 deaths {{Austria-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
