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Der Rosenkavalier (The Knight of the Rose or The Rose-Bearer [1]), Op. 59, is a comic opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to an original German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. [2] It is loosely adapted from Louvet de Couvrai's novel Les amours du chevalier de Faublas and Molière's comedy Monsieur de Pourceaugnac. [3]
The songs are scored for piccolo, 3 flutes (3rd doubling on 2nd piccolo), 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets in B-flat and A, bass clarinet, 3 bassoons (3rd doubling on contrabassoon), 4 horns in F (also E-flat and D), 3 trumpets in C, E-flat and F, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, harp, celesta, and strings.
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"Befreit" ("Released" or "Liberated") is an art song for voice and piano composed by Richard Strauss in 1898, setting a poem by the German poet Richard Dehmel.
Schmutzer's Engraved portrait of Strauss, 1922. The orchestral Dance Suite from Keyboard Pieces by François Couperin (Tanzsuite aus Klavierstücken von François Couperin), TrV 245 was composed by Richard Strauss in 1923 and consists of eight movements, each one based on a selection of pieces from François Couperin's Pièces de Clavecin written for the solo harpsichord over the period 1713 ...
Since Elektra and Der Rosenkavalier, with only the exception of Intermezzo, all previous operas by Strauss were based on libretti by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, who died in 1929. Stefan Zweig , who was then a celebrated author, had never met Strauss, who was his senior by 17 years.
The Adagio is in Ternary form with an ABA structure; the Scherzo is a "full fledged Scherzo in an expanded ABABA form. [2] The first movement is notable for having the main theme based on the repeated note short-short-short long which echoes the rhythm of the Fate motif of Beethoven's Fifth symphony. [3] Larry Todd states that:
The Emperor (Der Kaiser) heldentenor: Karl Aagaard Østvig: The Empress (Die Kaiserin), Keikobad's daughter: dramatic coloratura soprano: Maria Jeritza: The Nurse (Die Amme), her guardian: dramatic mezzo-soprano: Lucie Weidt: Barak, the Dyer (Barak, der Färber) bass-baritone: Richard Mayr: The Dyer's Wife (Die Färberin) high dramatic soprano ...