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The Sorrows of Young Werther ([ˈveːɐ̯tɐ]; German: Die Leiden des jungen Werthers), or simply Werther, is a 1774 epistolary novel by Johann Wolfgang Goethe, which appeared as a revised edition in 1787.
The most important of Goethe's works produced before he went to Weimar were Götz von Berlichingen (1773), a tragedy that was the first work to bring him recognition, and the novel The Sorrows of Young Werther (German: Die Leiden des jungen Werthers) (1774), which gained him enormous fame as a writer in the Sturm und Drang period which marked ...
Werther: drame lyrique: 4 acts: Édouard Blau, Paul Milliet and Georges Hartmann, after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Die Leiden des jungen Werther (German translation for Vienna: Max Kalbeck) 16 February 1892 (in German), 16 January 1893 (in French) Vienna, Hofopera; Paris, Opéra-Comique (Lyrique) Thaïs: opéra: 3 acts
Discovered by chance, Goethe's book about Werther (whom Edgar often calls, in original English, "Old Werther") becomes a verbal weapon Edgar uses to solve inconvenient situations. The young rebel isn't successful as an artist and thinks that he's underestimated by the people a bit. He starts working as a house painter.
Werther is an opera (drame lyrique) in four acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Édouard Blau, Paul Milliet and Georges Hartmann (who used the pseudonym Henri Grémont). It is loosely based on Goethe's epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther , which was based both on fact and on Goethe's own early life.
1797: "Der Zauberlehrling" (The Sorcerer's Apprentice), (which was later the basis of a symphonic poem by Paul Dukas, which in turn was animated by Disney in Fantasia) 1797: "Die Braut von Korinth" [1] ("The Bride of Corinth"), 1798: Hermann und Dorothea (Hermann and Dorothea), epic; 1798: Die Weissagungen des Bakis (The Soothsayings of Bakis)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe refers to Emilia Galotti in his novel The Sorrows of Young Werther (Die Leiden des jungen Werthers), which was published in 1774. They had laid Werther on the bed: his head was bound up, and the paleness of death was upon his face.
Charlotte Buff (11 January 1753, Wetzlar – 16 January 1828, Hanover) was a youthful acquaintance of the poet Goethe, who fell in love with her.She rejected him and instead married Johann Christian Kestner (1741–1800), vice-archivist and privy councillor to the Hanoverian court.