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German composer and noble (1783-1865)
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Towards German romantic opera: Carl Maria von Weber's struggle to create modern German opera
Weber: Der_Freischütz - Design for the Wolf's Glen scene - Weimar, 1822 The operas of Carl Maria von Weber remain something of problem, despite being highly important and significant in the development of German music, the works themselves are often much misunderstood and valued more for their influence on later composers like Richard Wagner than for their own sake. Outside German-speaking areas, performances of Weber's masterpiece Der Freischütz are relatively rare and even in German-speaking areas it can be unusual, when Vienna State Opera performed a new production of Der Freischütz in 2019 it was the first time the opera had been performed there in over 20 years. And Weber's other two major operas, Euryanthe and Oberon remain little more than misunderstood curiosities. Carl Maria von Weber was born in 1786, five years before his cousin Mozart's final German opera, Die Zauberflote was premiered, and Weber […]
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