Die Loreley (opera)
Die Loreley is an opera by Max Bruch to a German-language libretto by Emanuel Geibel, originally intended for Felix Mendelssohn.[1][2]
Bruch did not complete the work until 1863.[3] The opera was premiered in that year.[4]
References[edit]
- ^ Program of the Ann Arbor May Festival - Issues 27-30 - Page 45 University of Michigan. University Musical Society - 1920 FIFTH CONCERT Saturday Afternoon May 19 PRELUDE TO "LORELEY," Opus 16 Bruch Max Bruch was born ... Some years later his attention was drawn to the libretto of an opera — "Loreley" — which Emanuel Geibel (1815-1884) had originally written for Mendelssohn. ... Bruch read the poem in 1861, and immediately set out for Munich to induce the author to permit him to make a setting for the text.
- ^ Mews, Siegfried, James N. Hardin - 1993 Nineteenth century German writers: 1841 - 1900 p 106 "Geibel refused to allow Die Loreley to be published until 1860; in 1861 he assented to a composition by Max Bruch."
- ^ IMSLP, probably taking its information from the notes to the cpo recording of the work.
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 4 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 677.
External links[edit]
- Die Loreley (opera): Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
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