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Literature and opera of
Germany
by Szilvia Papp
Literature
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1749-1832
- one of the greatest
classic of German
literature,
- he composed in lire,
drama and epic
Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann or E.T.A.
Hoffmann
1776-1822
- he was an outstanding
writer of German romantic
- he was composer,
bandmaster, jurist,
graphic artist, and he
made caricatures
Heinrich Heine
1797-1856
- he comes from a Jewish
family, romantic poet,
writer, journalist
- lot of composers have set
Heine’s works to music,
e.g. Franz Schubert,
Felix Mendelssohn,
Johannes Brahms,
Richard Strauss
Thomas Mann
1875-1955
- he was a German
novelist, short story
writer, social critic,
essayist, and 1929 Nobel
Prize laureate, known for
his series of highly
symbolic and ironic epic
novels and novellas
Franz Kafka
1883-1924
- was a major fiction
writer of the early 20th
century
- his stories include The
Metamorphosis (1912)
and In the Penal Colony
(1914), while his novels
are The Trial (1925), The
Castle (1926) and
Amerika (1927)
Opera
Georg Friedrich Händel
1685-1759
- he was German (Saxon)
origin baroque
composer, instrumental
perfomer
- his works include
Messiah, Water Music,
and Music for the Royal
Fireworks
Willibald Gluck
1714-1787
- the big innovator,
- he became famous
with the revolutionary
new ballet music, with
the Don Juan (1761)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
1756-1791
- Austrian musician and
composer
- he composed all kind of
genre (chamber music,
symphony, concertino,
choral, and opera)
Joseph Haydn
1732-1809
- the first big master of
classical music in Wien
- he is often called the
"Father of the
Symphony" and "Father
of the String Quartet"
because of his
important contributions
to these genres
Ludwig van Beethoven
1770-1827
- next to Haydn and
Mozart, he was kept the
third classical of
Classicism of Wien
- his music weares the
characteristics of
romantic
Richard Wagner
1813-1883
- German composer,
bandmaster, aesthete
- unlike most other opera
composers, Wagner wrote
both the music and the
libretto for every one of his
works
Richard Strauss
1864-1949
- German composer
- he was mainly famous for
his program music, opera
and bandmaster activity
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