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The Lorelei (/ ˈ l ɒr ə l aɪ / ⓘ LORR-ə-ly; German: Loreley or Lorelei, pronounced [loːʁəˈlaɪ̯] ⓘ or [ˈloːʁəlaɪ̯]; also found as Loreleï, Lore Lay, Lore-Ley, Lurley, Lurelei and Lurlei throughout history) is a 132-metre-high (433 ft), steep slate rock on the right bank of the River Rhine in the Rhine Gorge (or Middle Rhine) at Sankt Goarshausen in Germany, part of the ...
Die Loreley is an opera by Max Bruch to a German-language libretto by Emanuel Geibel, originally intended for Felix Mendelssohn. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Bruch did not complete the work until 1863. [ 3 ]
Poetry portal; Porterfield, Allen Wilson. "Graf von Loeben and the Legend of Lorelei." Modern Philology, Vol. 13, No. 6 (Oct., 1915), pp. 305–332. A highly critical account of some of Loeben's works, dismissing the theory that one of his poems of 1821 provided the inspiration for Heinrich Heine's Die Lorelei.
The Lorelei is a rock in the Rhine River, the subject of numerous legends, poems, and songs about maritime disaster. Lorelei , Loralei , Loreley , Lorelai , or Lorilei may also refer to: Film and stage
Die stille Lotosblume text: Geibel; v pf 1842–43 1,5. 1843 2. 1843? 3-4,6. 1842. 1843 1. 2nd version of Ihr Bildnis 2. 2nd version Lorelei text: Heine: v pf 1843 1990
Loreley is an opera (azione romantica) in three acts composed by Alfredo Catalani to a libretto by Angelo Zanardini [], Carlo D'Ormeville [] and others. It premiered on 16 February 1890 at the Teatro Regio in Turin.
The child had hummed a simple melody of which Liszt made the song. In 1841 he started composing additional songs. His first ones were "Die Lorelei" after Heine, composed on November 20, 1841 in Cassel, and "Oh! quand je dors" ("Oh! when I'm dreaming") after Victor Hugo, composed at end of December 1841 in Berlin. Both songs were composed for ...
Philipp Friedrich Silcher (27 June 1789 in Schnait (today part of Weinstadt) – 26 August 1860 in Tübingen), was a German composer, mainly known for his lieder (songs), and an important Volkslied collector.