Adolf Schimon News
German composer (1820-1887)
- piano
- Germany, Austria
- composer, university teacher, pianist, maestro
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2020-10-26 08:06:29
An honourable failure or a misunderstood masterpiece? Another look at Weber's Oberon
[…] Der Freischütz was popular in London, even though it was known through a series of bastardised productions, and Planché's Oberon utilised Weber's gift for the picturesque, the supernatural and the exotic. It gave Weber the chance to use music to characterise the three different sets of characters, the knightly Huon and his chivalric world, the Orient and the fairy, and of course the fairies here are far from the nice creatures. Ferdinand Schimon: Carl Maria von Weber in 1825 Charles Kemble had written to Weber in 1824, following successful productions of Der Freischütz in London, but Weber had demurred at first, he was tired and ill after the effort of Euryanthe. But he agreed, and selected the subject of Oberon; he was also offered Faust, but Weber's friend Louis Spohr (1784-1859) had written a Faust which Weber had premiered in Prague in 1816. Weber left Dresden […]
2020-07-27 09:04:02
Towards German romantic opera: Carl Maria von Weber's struggle to create modern German opera
[…] final German opera, Die Zauberflote was premiered, and Weber would not yet be twenty when Beethoven's only opera, Leonore, premiered in 1805; these were the giants of German opera. Carl Maria, studying in Vienna with Abbé Vogler would discover a commonality with one of Vogler's other pupils, the slightly younger Jakob Meyer Beer (born 1793) who, as Giacomo Meyerbeer, would revolutionise French opera. Carl Maria Weber painted in 1825 by Ferdinand Schimon After time in Breslau, Weber became the director of the opera in Dresden, where opera had played a significant role since the late 17th century when the first opera court theatre opened in 1667, and in the 18th century under composer Johann Hasse the company had its glory days. But the focus then, as in 1817 when Weber joined, was Italian opera and Weber had to struggle to establish the German opera company […]
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