• Werner Egk (German pronunciation: [ˈɛk], 17 May 1901 – 10 July 1983), born Werner Joseph Mayer, was a German composer. He was born in the Swabian town...
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  • Circe is a 1945 opera by Werner Egk after Pedro Calderón de la Barca, premiered 1948. Egk reworked it as an opera semibuffa as 17 Tage und 4 Minuten, 1966...
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  • Columbus is a 1933 opera by Werner Egk. Originally a radio opera, Egk revised it in 1942 for the stage. The Munich premiere was acclaimed in the press...
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  • Werner Bodendorff (born in 1958) is a German oboist, musicologist (with a focus on Franz Schubert, Werner Egk, church music and wind music) as well as...
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  • David Henry Hwang and Stephan Muller Peer Gynt (opera), a 1938 opera by Werner Egk Peer Gynt, a ballet by John Neumeier set to music by Alfred Schnittke...
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  • Peer Gynt (opera) (category Operas by Werner Egk)
    Werner Egk to a libretto after the play Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen. The premiere took place on 24 November 1938 at the Berliner Staatsoper where Egk was...
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    soldat by Igor Stravinsky Abraxas, a ballet based on the Faust legend by Werner Egk which has been choreographed by several different creatives Faust was...
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  • Hindemith (1895–1963) Herbert Eimert (1897–1972) Kurt Weill (1900–1950) Werner Egk (1901–1983) Stefan Wolpe (1902–1972) Boris Blacher (1903–1975) Karl Amadeus...
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    archaeologist 1861–1933 Ferdinand Bonn, stage and film actor 1901–1983 Werner Egk, composer 1942 Werner Schnitzer, actor 1948 Manfred G. Schmidt, professor of political...
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  • Die Verlobung in San Domingo (category Operas by Werner Egk)
    Verlobung in San Domingo (The Engagement in San Domingo) is a 1960 opera by Werner Egk after Heinrich von Kleist, premiered on 22 November 1963 at the Bavarian...
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  • form Abrasax may also refer to: Abraxas (ballet), a ballet with music by Werner Egk Abraxas (band), a Czech rock band Abraxas (album), a 1970 album by Santana...
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  • Many classical and later composers have written compositions in the form of variations on a theme by another composer. This is an incomplete list of such...
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    il principe Eugenio by Alberto Bruno Tedeschi, the Suite Française by Werner Egk, the Tanz-Rondo by Gottfried von Einem, and the Symphony No. 6 by Karl...
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    Eberwein (1775–1831) Johannes Eccard (1553–1611) Moritz Eggert (born 1965) Werner Egk (1901–1983) Ernst Eichner (1740–1777), also known as Ernst Dietrich Adolph...
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  • Der Revisor (category Operas by Werner Egk)
    Der Revisor is a comic opera in five acts by Werner Egk, who was also the librettist. It is based on Nikolai Gogol's play The Government Inspector. The...
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    Helene Voigt-Diederichs (1875–1961) Johann Nepomuk David (1895–1977) Werner Egk (1901–1983) Gerhard Frommel [de] (1906–1984) Harald Genzmer (1909–2007)...
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    has given world premieres of works by, among others, Olivier Messiaen, Werner Egk, Péter Eötvös, and Jörg Widmann. James R. Oestreich from The New York...
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  • Abraxas is a ballet in five scenes with both music and a libretto by Werner Egk that is based on the Faust legend. The original 1948 choreography for the...
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  • Irische Legende (category Operas by Werner Egk)
    Irische Legende (Irish Legend) is a 1955 opera by Werner Egk who also wrote the libretto after the 1892/1899 verse drama The Countess Cathleen by W. B...
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    (Christmas), a radio opera (also known as Weihnacht 1929), composed by Werner Egk to a libretto by Robert Seitz was first broadcast in 1929 by Bayerischer...
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  • Die Zaubergeige (category Operas by Werner Egk)
    Die Zaubergeige is a 1935 opera by Werner Egk to a libretto by Ludwig Strecker after Count Franz Pocci. Egk revised the opera in 1954. Die Zaubergeige...
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    (1940), by Amilcare Zanella; premiered in Trieste Der Revisor (1957), by Werner Egk (1901–1983); first performed at the Schlosstheater Schwetzingen at the...
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    York/London 1979). In Germany, under the title Der Fuchs und der Rabe, Werner Egk set the fable for children's performance in 1932 and the Swiss composer...
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    Ernst Haefliger. Operas by Werner Egk, Boris Blacher and Luigi Nono were premiered during this time, including Hans Werner Henze's König Hirsch on 23...
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    another theatrical success after Peer Gynt. In 1938, German composer Werner Egk finished an opera based on the story. In 1948, the composer Harald Sæverud...
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    choreographies of works by contemporary composers including Boris Blacher, Werner Egk, Hans Werner Henze, Giselher Klebe, Luigi Nono and Carl Orff. Tatjana Issatschenko...
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  • dedicated to Carl Orff – Dießen am Ammersee Werner-Egk-Begegnungsstätte [nl], dedicated to Werner Egk – Donauwörth Sängermuseum [nl] – Feuchtwangen...
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  • leader (b. 1916) July 7 – Herman Kahn, American futurist (b. 1922) July 10 Werner Egk, German composer (b. 1901) Estrellita Castro, Spanish singer and actress...
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  • of 1 symphony Conrad Beck (1901–1989), Swiss composer of 7 symphonies Werner Egk (1901–1983), German composer of 1 symphony (Kleine Symphonie, 1926) Eivind...
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    Welt by Paul Hindemith 16 February 1960, ballet Danza by Heinz Rosen / Werner Egk 1961, ballet La Buffonata by Heinz Rosen / Wilhelm Killmayer "Das Prinzregententheater"...
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