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  2. Goethe's Faust - Wikipedia

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    Sculpture of Mephistopheles bewitching the students in the scene "Auerbachs Keller" from Faust, at the entrance of what is today the restaurant Auerbachs Keller in Leipzig Anton Kaulbach: Faust and Mephisto. Faust is a tragic play in two parts by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, usually known in English as Faust, Part One and Faust, Part Two. Nearly ...

  3. Zueignung - Wikipedia

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    " Zueignung" (translated as "Dedication" or "Devotion") is a Lied composed by Richard Strauss in 1885 (completed 13 August), setting a poem by the Austrian poet Hermann von Gilm. It was included in Strauss's first published collection of songs, as Op . 10 in 1885.

  4. Faust - Wikipedia

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    Originally title Action Faust, it is an interpretation of the tale from the Devil's perspective. "Bohemian Rhapsody" by English rock band Queen. From the album A Night at the Opera. "Faust" by singer songwriter Paul Williams from the original soundtrack of The Phantom of the Paradise. "Faust" by English virtual band Gorillaz, from their album G ...

  5. Works based on Faust - Wikipedia

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    H. J. Byron's Little Doctor Faust (1877) (a musical burlesque at the Gaiety Theatre) W. S. Gilbert 's Gretchen , an 1879 play based on Goethe 's version of the Faust legend Igor Stravinsky 's Histoire du soldat (1918), a theatrical piece "to be read, played and danced" with a libretto by C.F. Ramuz

  6. Ernestine Schumann-Heink - Wikipedia

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    Ernestine Schumann-Heink (15 June 1861 – 17 November 1936) was a Bohemian-born Austrian-American operatic dramatic contralto of German Bohemian descent. [1] She was noted for the flexibility and wide range of her voice.

  7. Faust (1960 film) - Wikipedia

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    Faust is a 1960 West German theatrical film directed by Peter Gorski. It is based on Goethe's Faust (1808) and adapted from the theater production at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg .

  8. Faust (novella) - Wikipedia

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    Faust (Russian: Фауст, Faust) is a novella by Ivan Turgenev, written in 1856 and published in the October issue of the Sovremennik magazine in the same year. [1] The story draws inspiration from Goethe's Faust , both as a tangible book around which the narrative revolves, and thematically.

  9. Erdgeist - Wikipedia

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    Faust and Erdgeist, illustration by Goethe. Erdgeist is the spirit of the Earth that Johann Wolfgang von Goethe describes in Faust, Part One. 'Du, Geist der Erde, bist mir näher; schon fühl ich meine Kräfte höher,...' Goethe depicts Erdgeist as a timeless being who endlessly weaves on the loom of time—both in life and in death. In this ...