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« Reply #3705 on: 22:30:24, 14-01-2008 » |
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Is it Schumann Kreisleriana?
Hoffmann inspired Weber and Wagner.
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« Reply #3706 on: 22:37:53, 14-01-2008 » |
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Yes, Kreisleriana is after Johannes Kreisler, a character in three novels by E.T.A. Hoffmann.
Wagner's first opera, Die Hochzeit, which was abandoned before completion, was supposed to be inspired by Hoffman, as, I believe, to some extent was Die Feen.
Tchaikovsky – The Nutcracker
Hindemith - Cardillac
Schumann – Fantasiestucke/ Kreisleriana
Reinecke
Spontini
Delibes - Coppelia
Offenbach – The Tales of Hoffmann
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« Reply #3707 on: 09:30:02, 15-01-2008 » |
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Reinecke has Undine flute sonatas. I don't think IGI had this in mind. I will have to wait for my answer.
Ravel also has Undine. May be it is also based on Hoffman story. May be he could be added to the list.
Spontini Le metamorfosi di Pasquale. There is some connection with Hoffman and this opera, but I can not understand what.
That was a good sequence, very useful.
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« Reply #3708 on: 17:48:10, 15-01-2008 » |
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Hello, t-p,  The Reinecke was his Nutcracker and the Mouse King, Op.46. Have you read the Hoffmann story? Very dark and not at all like the Tchaikovsky ballet version! Another Reinecke/Hoffmann link is the Undine/Ondine legend - Reinecke's Flute Sonata is subtitled Undine, and Hoffman composed an opera on the story. The Spontini was his opera Olimpie, a character who appears in the Offenbach Tales of Hoffmann as well. |
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« Reply #3709 on: 18:34:20, 16-01-2008 » |
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Another quartet for you to consider:
Brahms
Rimsky-Korsakov
Saint-Saëns
Stravinsky
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« Reply #3710 on: 20:29:28, 16-01-2008 » |
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Anything to do with birds?
Saint-Saens - The bird house from Carnival of the Animals
Rimsky-Korsakov - Dance of the birds from the Snow Maiden Suite
Stravinsky - The Nightingale
And a song by Brahms about a bird?
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« Reply #3711 on: 21:02:43, 16-01-2008 » |
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Anything to do with birds?
Yes, Tony, it is and you've got one correct answer, although I shan't reveal which one yet!  |
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« Reply #3712 on: 21:35:41, 16-01-2008 » |
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Ah, it's one particular bird isn't it?
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« Reply #3713 on: 21:45:25, 16-01-2008 » |
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I think it's specific birds too. So I'll stick with Stravinsky's Nightingale and go for the Cuckoo from SS's Carnival of the Animals.
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« Reply #3714 on: 21:50:51, 16-01-2008 » |
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Yes to the Stravinsky, Tony, but no to the Saint-Saëns.
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« Reply #3715 on: 21:55:24, 16-01-2008 » |
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Saint-Saëns The Nightingale and the Rose?
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« Reply #3716 on: 21:56:30, 16-01-2008 » |
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And Rimsky's The Rose and the Nightingale?  |
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« Reply #3717 on: 21:57:12, 16-01-2008 » |
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Going well!
Brahms -
Rimsky-Korsakov - Eastern Song: The nightingale enslaved by the rose
Saint-Saëns - Le rose et le rossignol
Stravinsky - Song of the Nightingale
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« Reply #3718 on: 21:57:55, 16-01-2008 » |
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And Brahms op. 46/4, I suppose... (An die Nachtigall)
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« Reply #3719 on: 22:04:05, 16-01-2008 » |
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Yes, Ollie, or Nachtigall from the Six Songs op.97, no.1  Well done, Ollie and Tony. A real flock of nightingales lay in reserve, but thanks to Tony's lightning spot, they remain hidden (for another time?!) |
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