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    Johann Sebastian Bach composed the church cantata Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben (Heart and mouth and deed and life), BWV 147 in 1723 during his first...
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  • Fritz Löhner-Beda (category Austrian operetta librettists)
    (24 June 1883 – 4 December 1942), born Bedřich Löwy, was an Austrian librettist, lyricist and writer. Once nearly forgotten, many of his songs and tunes...
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    2000, p. 313. Frey (1999), pp. 338f. Peter Herz [de]: "Der Fall Franz Lehár. Eine authentische Darlegung von Peter Herz". In: Die Gemeinde 24 April 1968....
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    the opportunity to write serious arias and thus the "audition" of Madame Herz includes her aria "Da schlägt die Abschiedsstunde" ("There tolls the hour...
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  • Staatskapelle Dresden. Strieglers' students include the composer, writer, librettist and director Robert Bosshart, the conductor Rolf Kleinert and the composer...
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    were paraphrased into alternating recitatives and arias by an unknown librettist. The cantata in seven movements is scored for SATB soloists and choir...
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    hymn "Warum betrübst du dich, mein Herz", which Bach had used in 1723 in his cantata Warum betrübst du dich, mein Herz, BWV 138. Bach first performed the...
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  • Abandoned Person"" – from Ruddigore, Act II Singer: Ann Drummond-Grant. Librettist: Gilbert, William Schwenck. Singer: Richard Watson. Orchestra: D'Oyly...
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    Erforsche mich, Gott, und erfahre mein Herz (Search me, God, and know my heart), BWV 136 is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. Bach composed the...
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    written using the NBA numbering system. Bach worked together with his librettist, Christian Friedrich Henrici, known as Picander who published the text...
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    Among his siblings was Elise von Hofmannsthal (whose sister-in-law, Adelheid Herz, married Carl Mayer von Rothschild). His father was a Jewish tobacco farmer...
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    Berlin Classics 3CD 0310001: Peter Schreier, Siegfried Lorenz, Ekkehard Wlaschiha, Fritz Hübner, Hans-Joachim Ketelsen, Peter-Jürgen Schmitd, Carola Nossek...
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    Friedrich Kalkbrenner, Adolf von Henselt, Sigismond Thalberg, Henri Herz, Johann Peter Pixis, Carl Czerny and her own compositions. She turned to including...
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  • Bruno Granichstaedten (category Austrian operetta librettists)
    1879, Vienna – May 30, 1944, New York City) was an Austrian composer and librettist. He composed sixteen operettas and music for various films. He contributed...
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    chorale fantasia, the latter as a four-part closing chorale. An unknown librettist paraphrased the inner stanzas as recitatives and arias, quoting one stanza...
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    chorale cantata of Bach's second cantata cycle, possibly because the librettist who provided the paraphrases for the middle movements of these cantatas...
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  • Bryan Adams "Heaven for Everyone" – Queen "Here I Go" – 2 Unlimited "Herz an Herz" – Blümchen "Hey Lover" – LL Cool J & Boyz II Men "Hey Man, Nice Shot"...
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    alone, sings to himself, in another song from the Spanisches Liederbuch ("Herz, verzage nicht geschwind") about the strange behaviour of women. At this...
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    others have noticed Jewish-sounding intervals in his music). The Viennese librettist Victor Leon summarized the connection of Jewish composers and writers...
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    recommended the Hungarian-Austrian writer Ignaz Schnitzer to Strauss as a librettist, and the two men created the work over a two-year period from 1883 through...
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  • Rees's Cyclopaedia List of New England Conservatory people List of opera librettists List of operatic pop artists List of people associated with the Royal...
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    altered in the following way: Lukas-Passion 1728 "Israel, ach, geliebtes Vater-Herz!" (TWV 5:13). Georg Philipp Telemanns Musikalische Werke, Band 15, Hans Hörner...
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    Isaiah and the gospel of Matthew about the Wise Men from the East. The librettist begins with a quotation from the prophecy, comments it by a stanza of...
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    music increasingly fell in the shadow of Richard Strauss. His opera, Das Herz of 1932, was unsuccessful. Pfitzner remained a peripheral figure in the musical...
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    text by Wilhelm Gerhard, after Burns 15. Aus den hebräischen Gesängen (Mein Herz ist schwer); text by Karl Julius Körner (1793-1873), after Byron 16. Rätsel;...
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    were Peter's sermon from the Acts of the Apostles, and the Road to Emmaus narration from the Gospel of Luke. The text by an anonymous librettist begins...
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    E. M. Forster (category English opera librettists)
    relationship with Constantine Cavafy, and his influence on Lawrence Durrell. Judith Herz and Robert K. Martin, E. M. Forster: Centenary Revaluations (Macmillan Press...
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    end from Philipp Nicolai's "Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern". The librettist developed his thoughts like a sermon. Bach structured the cantata in six...
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    Die Fledermaus Operetta by Johann Strauss II Johann Strauss II Librettist Karl Haffner Richard Genée Language German Based on Gefängnis by Julius Roderich...
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  • composer and mandolin virtuoso Arrigo Boito 1842 1918 Italian composer and librettist, known as a composer for his opera, Mefistofele Josef Labor 1842 1924...
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