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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 ...
Salomon Heine (19 October 1767 – 23 December 1844) was a merchant and banker in Hamburg. Heine was born in Hanover. Penniless, he came to Hamburg in 1784 and in the following years acquired sizeable assets. It was common knowledge at the time that he was benefactor and patron to his nephew Heinrich Heine.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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
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 .
Gustav Heine, after 1870 Gustav Freiherr Heine von Geldern (18 June 1812, in Düsseldorf – 15 November 1886, in Vienna), was a German-Austrian journalist and press publisher. He was born into a Jewish family in Düsseldorf; one of his brothers was Heinrich Heine .