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Mignon is a 1915 American silent drama film directed by William Nigh with production supervised by Alexander E. Beyfuss. It is based on the 1866 opera Mignon that was from the 1795-96 novel Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe .
Mignon (French pronunciation: ⓘ) is an 1866 opéra comique (or opera in its second version) in three acts by Ambroise Thomas.The original French libretto was by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré, based on Goethe's 1795-96 novel Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre.
Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years (Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre) (1821–1829) Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship ( German : Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre ) is the second novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , published in 1795–96.
In the novel, it is sung as a duet by Mignon and the harpist (Augustin) the latter being revealed as her father at the end of the novel. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The poem has been set to music by many composers, [ 3 ] among them Beethoven , Schubert (six settings, the last two included in Gesänge aus "Wilhelm Meister , D 877), Schumann , Wolf and ...
Mignon, a fictional character in Goethe's novels Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years. Mignon (Schubert), the Goethe character and the subject of several lieder by Schubert; the title character of Modeste Mignon, an 1844 novel by Honoré de Balzac; Mignon, a 1962 novel by James M. Cain
Meister is portrayed in various adaptations of Goethe's novels, notably as a tenor in the 1866 opera Mignon composed by Ambroise Thomas. [5] Rüdiger Vogler played a variation of Meister in Wim Wenders' 1975 film The Wrong Move, which is loosely based on Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship but takes place in post-war West Germany.
Schubert had started to compose songs on texts by Goethe in 1814, among which is "Gretchen am Spinnrade," published as his Op. 2 in 1821. [1]His first Mignon-related song was a setting of "An Mignon" ['Über Tal und Fluß getragen'], a poem published by Goethe in 1797.
The literary prototype of Asya is speculated to be Mignon from Goethe's novels Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years. [4] The similarity of the character of Asya is often compared with Natasha Rostova from Tolstoy's novel War and Peace. [5]