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Friedrich Georg Goethe was married twice, his first marriage was to Anna Elisabeth Lutz (1667–1700), the daughter of a burgher Sebastian Lutz (died 1701), with whom he had five children, including Hermann Jakob Goethe (1697–1761), after the death of his first wife in 1705 he married Cornelia Schellhorn, née Walther (1668–1754), widow of ...
On 13 July 1788, the 39-year-old Goethe met the 23-year-old Vulpius in the Park an der Ilm, where she handed him a petition on behalf of her brother Christian August. Goethe later advocated several times for his future brother-in-law. That summer, Goethe and Vulpius began a passionate love affair.
The first clue as to the work's structure is in Liszt's title: "A Faust Symphony in Three Character Sketches after Goethe: (1) Faust, (2) Gretchen, (3) Mephistopheles." Liszt does not attempt to tell the story of Goethe's drama. Rather, he creates musical portraits of the three main protagonists. [1]
Pages in category "Characters in Goethe's Faust" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. E. Erdgeist; F.
(3) Wilhelm takes the opportunity to deliver an exegesis on the character, Hamlet. He advocates a studious approach of the entire text in order to reconcile contradictions and penetrate into the author's mind. (4) Before they set out, Philine explains to Wilhelm why Laertes is so bitter towards women.
" Gretchen am Spinnrade" (Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel), Op. 2, D 118, is a Lied composed by Franz Schubert using the text from Part One, scene 15 of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust. With "Gretchen am Spinnrade" and some 600 other songs for voice and piano, Schubert contributed transformatively to the genre of Lied.
In her 2001 book Goethe's Elective Affinities and the Critics, she writes: From the time of its publication to today, Goethe's novel, Die Wahlverwandtschaften (Elective Affinities, 1809), has aroused a storm of interpretive confusion. Readers fiercely debate the role of the chemical theory of elective affinities presented in the novel.
Mignon, a fictional character in Goethe's novels Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years. Mignon (Schubert), the Goethe character and the subject of several lieder by Schubert; the title character of Modeste Mignon, an 1844 novel by Honoré de Balzac; Mignon, a 1962 novel by James M. Cain