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Christian Johann Heinrich Heine (/ ˈ h aɪ n ə /; German: [ˈhaɪnʁɪç ˈhaɪnə] ⓘ; born Harry Heine; 13 December 1797 – 17 February 1856) was a German poet, writer and literary critic. He is best known outside Germany for his early lyric poetry , which was set to music in the form of Lieder (art songs) by composers such as Robert ...
The subject for the opera was suggested to the composer by Mily Balakirev, who also orchestrated certain passages of the opera, as did Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.. The libretto of the opera was adapted by the composer from Vasily Zhukovsky's Russian verse translation of the like-named tragedy by Heinrich Heine, with some additional verses by Viktor Krylov, who had already written the libretti for ...
William Ratcliff may refer to: William Ratcliff, a play by Heinrich Heine, and its several operatic adaptations William Ratcliff (premiered 1869), Russian opera by César Cui; Guglielmo Ratcliff (premiered 1895), a later opera by Pietro Mascagni; Ratcliff (premiered 1914), an opera by Volkmar Andreae; William Ratcliff, a 1922 Austrian silent film
Drawing of the globe from Von Geldern's diary. Simon von Geldern (1720–1774) was a German traveler and author.. He was born into a wealthy family of Court Jews. [1] Born in Dusseldorf, he became an adventurer, poet, gambler, and a traveler to the Middle East.
Ein Wintermärchen) is a satirical epic poem by the German writer Heinrich Heine (1797–1856), describing the thoughts of a journey from Paris to Hamburg the author made in winter 1843. The title refers to Shakespeare's Winter's Tale , similar to his poem Atta Troll: Ein Sommernachtstraum ("Atta Troll: A Midsummer Night's Dream"), written 1841 ...
Maximilian Meyer Heine (November 6, 1807 - November 6, 1879) was a German doctor and Russian state councilor. He served with the Russian Army during the Russo-Turkish War. He was the youngest brother of Heinrich Heine. He graduated from the universities of Berlin and Munich in 1829 and joined the Russian army as a surgeon. [1] He died in Berlin ...
Guglielmo Ratcliff is a tragic opera in four acts by Pietro Mascagni to an Italian libretto by Andrea Maffei, translated from the German play Wilhelm Ratcliff (1822) by Heinrich Heine. Mascagni had substantially finished the composition of Ratcliff before the success of his first opera, Cavalleria rusticana .
"The Silesian Weavers" (also: Weaver-song) is a poem by Heinrich Heine written in 1844. It is exemplary of the political poetry of the Vormärz movement. It is about the misery of the Silesian weavers, who in 1844 ventured an uprising against exploitation and wage decreases, and thereby drew attention to the grievances originated in the context of industrialization.