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Kamila Vránková, Variations and Transformations of the 'Lenore' Motif in European Ballads; Oliver Farrar Emerson, The Earliest English Translations of Bürger's Lenore: A Study in English and German Romanticism; Peter Drews, G.A. Bürger's Lenore in the Slavic (pre-)Romantic era [permanent dead link] (in German)
Molmerswende. Died. 8 June 1794. (1794-06-08) (aged 46) Göttingen. Gottfried August Bürger (31 December 1747 – 8 June 1794) was a German poet. His ballads were very popular in Germany. His most noted ballad, Lenore, found an audience beyond readers of the German language in an English and Russian adaptation and a French translation.
5 March 1836. (1836-03-05) (aged 70) Norwich, East Anglia, England. Nationality. British. William Taylor (7 November 1765 – 5 March 1836), often called William Taylor of Norwich, was a British essayist, scholar and polyglot. He is most notable as a supporter and translator of German romantic literature.
Symphony No. 5 (Raff) Gottfried August Bürger, author of Lenore. Symphony No. 5 in E major ( Lenore ), Op. 177, was composed by Joachim Raff between 1870 and 1872. It is generally regarded as his best symphony and the most frequently performed and recorded today. [1] It was inspired by Gottfried August Bürger 's ballad Lenore, set during the ...
Throughout Walter Scott 's literary career, he imitated and translated poems from German sources. The resulting collection was gradually expanded over successive editions of Scott's poetry until it included seven items, which are introduced below. Each ballad is a narrative poem retelling a popular German fairy-tale: including poignantly ...
The Lenore symphony (No. 5), famous in its time, was inspired by a ballad of the same name by Gottfried August Bürger that also inspired works by several other composers, including Maria Theresia von Paradis (1789), Henri Duparc, Franz Liszt (late 1850s, mentioned by Alan Walker in his Liszt biography vol. 2), for example.
A ballade (from French ballade, French pronunciation:, and German Ballade, German pronunciation: [baˈlaːdə], both being words for "ballad"), in classical music since the late 18th century, refers to a setting of a literary ballad, a narrative poem, in the musical tradition of the Lied, or to a one-movement instrumental piece with lyrical and dramatic narrative qualities reminiscent of such ...
Fidelio (/ fɪˈdeɪljoʊ /; [1] German: [fiˈdeːlio]), originally titled Leonore, oder Der Triumph der ehelichen Liebe (Leonore, or The Triumph of Marital Love), [2] Op. 72, is the only opera by German composer Ludwig van Beethoven. The libretto was originally prepared by Joseph Sonnleithner from the French of Jean-Nicolas Bouilly.