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Der Freischütz (J. 277, Op. 77 The Marksman [1] or The Freeshooter [2]) is a German opera with spoken dialogue in three acts by Carl Maria von Weber with a libretto by Friedrich Kind, based on a story by Johann August Apel and Friedrich Laun [3] from their 1810 collection Gespensterbuch.
Friedrich Laun, co-author of the Gespensterbuch, owned a copy of Unterredung Von dem Reiche der Geister (1731), and Johann Georg Theodor Grässe theorised that he brought the story of Georg Schmid to the attention of Apel. [9] [10] In Apel's version of the story, a forester, Bertram, is the last male descendant of the hunter Kuno.
It also occasionally occurs as a surname, or as Schütz, as in the opera Der Freischütz. The word itself is derived from the German word schützen , meaning to protect, or to guard. It was originally used for archers as they protected castle walls, and is the German equivalent to Sagittarius , the mythical form which held bow and arrow.
Romantische Oper (German for 'romantic opera') [a] is a genre of early nineteenth-century German opera, developed not from the German Singspiel of the eighteenth-century but from the opéras comiques of the French Revolution.
On the morning of the Der Freischütz premiere, Weber played the Konzertstück through to his wife Caroline and his pupil Julius Benedict, and told them the program: [1] (F minor; Larghetto affetuoso): "A châtelaine sits alone on her balcony, gazing off in the distance. Her knight has gone on a Crusade to the Holy Land.
A few weeks later, on 16 April, Tauber performed the role of Max in Der Freischütz. This performance was attended by Nikolaus Count von Seebach of the Dresden Opera, who had already offered Tauber a five-year contract starting on 1 August. The Count encouraged Tauber to take small roles with other companies to broaden his experience.
Title page illustration from volume one, depicting "Der Freischütz "The Gespensterbuch (literally 'Ghost Book' or 'Book of Spectres' [1]) is a collection of German ghost stories written by August Apel and Friedrich Laun and published in seven volumes between 1810 and 1817.
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