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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Helene Voigt-Diederichs (1875–1961) Johann Nepomuk David (1895–1977) Werner Egk (1901–1983) Gerhard Frommel [de] (1906–1984) Harald Genzmer (1909–2007)...

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...

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...

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...

(1940), by Amilcare Zanella; premiered in Trieste Der Revisor (1957), by Werner Egk (1901–1983); first performed at the Schlosstheater Schwetzingen at the...

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...

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...

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...

dedicated to Carl Orff – Dießen am Ammersee Werner-Egk-Begegnungsstätte [nl], dedicated to Werner Egk – Donauwörth Sängermuseum [nl] – Feuchtwangen...

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...

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...

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...

late stage of the war. Official painters Official sculptors Musicians Werner Egk Hans Pfitzner Carl Orff Richard Strauss Richard Wagner Architects Writers...

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...

awarded  Rudolph Simonsen (DEN) Symphony No. 2 "Hellas" 1936 Berlin  Werner Egk (GER) Olympic Festive Music  Lino Liviabella (ITA) The Victor  Jaroslav...

(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...

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...

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...

Kulturgemeinde [de] to compose music for Shakespeare's play; Hans Pfitzner, Werner Egk, and Gottfried Müller also were asked but declined. Rathkolb 2021, pp...

painter (d. 1992) 1899 – Carmen de Icaza, Spanish writer (d. 1979) 1901 – Werner Egk, German pianist and composer (d. 1983) 1903 – Cool Papa Bell, American...

Gesangskunst Werner Egk: Die Verlobung in San Domingo, with Fritz Wunderlich, Margarethe Bence, Richard Holm, Karl-Christian Kohn; conductor: Werner Egk, Bayerisches...