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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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(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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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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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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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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dedicated to Carl Orff – Dießen am Ammersee Werner-Egk-Begegnungsstätte [nl], dedicated to Werner Egk – Donauwörth Sängermuseum [nl] – Feuchtwangen...
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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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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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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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late stage of the war. Official painters Official sculptors Musicians Werner Egk Hans Pfitzner Carl Orff Richard Strauss Richard Wagner Architects Writers...
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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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awarded Rudolph Simonsen (DEN) Symphony No. 2 "Hellas" 1936 Berlin Werner Egk (GER) Olympic Festive Music Lino Liviabella (ITA) The Victor Jaroslav...
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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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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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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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Kulturgemeinde [de] to compose music for Shakespeare's play; Hans Pfitzner, Werner Egk, and Gottfried Müller also were asked but declined. Rathkolb 2021, pp...
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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...
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Gesangskunst Werner Egk: Die Verlobung in San Domingo, with Fritz Wunderlich, Margarethe Bence, Richard Holm, Karl-Christian Kohn; conductor: Werner Egk, Bayerisches...
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