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2020-07-27 09:04:02
Towards German romantic opera: Carl Maria von Weber's struggle to create modern German opera
[…] also wrote a series of singspiel, the most successful of which Undine which premiered in Berlin 1816 at the Königliches Schauspielhaus on a German fairytale written in 1811. The same year, Louis Spohr's Faust premiered in Prague with Weber conducting, and in fact Weber's enthusiasm for the opera had led to the work's premiere and Meyerbeer would introduce the work in Berlin. Spohr's opera is very much influenced by German writers, not Goethe but Maximilian Klinger (1752-1831) and Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811). These operas would demonstrate the potential for a German romantic opera, an ideal that Weber was seeking to establish. His opera Silvana which premiered in 1810 in Frankfurt is a strange work with the leading role played by a mime. Silvana is Weber's fifth opera but it would only be with his seventh opera that he managed to have any great success, and that was premiered in […]
2020-05-09 09:06:14
Music aiming to deliberately provoke shock and terror: Ian Page talks about his new Sturm und Drang recording project with The Mozartists on Signum Classics
[…] Drang, is somewhat contentious as it came after the movement, but nowadays it makes a convenient way of referring to this movement which was an explosive reaction to rococo, with music aiming to deliberately provoke shock and terror, and extended emotions.It is more than a musical idea, and initially was linked to the resurgence of the works of Shakespeare. The name Sturm und Drang comes from the name of a play by Friedrich Maximilan von Klinger (1752-1831), and whatever the art-form, Sturm und Drang involved turbulence and heightened drama. And music rather prefigures the literary works; the main literary Sturm und Drang dates from the 1770s whilst the music on Ian's first disc is from the 1760s.They begin with music from Gluck's ballet Don Juan, which was premiered in Vienna in 1761 with a libretto by the Italian poet Ranieri de'Calzabigi (1714-1795), who would go on to write the librettos […]
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