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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.
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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 ...
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
"Die Nacht" ("The Night") is an art song composed by Richard Strauss in 1885, setting a poem by the Austrian poet Hermann von Gilm. It was included in the first collection of songs Strauss ever published, as Op. 10 in 1885 (which also included "Zueignung").
Similarities to Goethe's Faust include the classic tale of a man who sold his soul to the Devil, the same Mephisto wagering with an angel to corrupt the soul of Faust, the plague sent by Mephisto on Faust's small town, and the familiar cliffhanger with Faust unable to find a cure for the Plague, and therefore turning to Mephisto, renouncing God ...
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