"Tales from the Vienna Woods (play) Tales from the Vienna Woods (, 1931) is a play by Austro-Hungarian writer Ödön von Horváth. It was premièred in Berlin in 1931 and has been filmed several times. Before the première, the German writer and playwright, Carl Zuckmayer nominated the play for the Kleist Prize, which it won, the most significant literary award of the Weimar Republic. The play's title is a reference to the waltz ""Tales from the Vienna Woods"" by Johann Strauss II. Horváth's play premièred at the Deutsches Theater, Berlin. Written in the late 1920s during the period of catastrophic"
"premiere), Helmut Qualtinger (Oskar) and Jane Tilden (Valerie), among others. Another version was made for television in 1964, directed by Michael Kehlmann. A 1979 remake was undertaken by director Maximilian Schell, featuring (Marianne), Hanno Pöschl (Alfred), Helmut Qualtinger (Zauberkönig), Jane Tilden (Valerie), Adrienne Gessner (Alfred's Grandmother), Götz Kauffmann (Oskar), André Heller (Hierlinger) and (Erich). ""Tales from the Vienna Woods"", a 2014 opera by composer HK Gruber to a libretto by Michael Sturminger. It premiered at the Bregenz Festival under the direction of the librettist and the baton of the composer Tales from the Vienna Woods (play) Tales from the Vienna"
"Silent Woods (Dvořák) Silent Woods () is the translated title of the composition by Antonín Dvořák initially published under the German title Waldesruhe. It is the fifth part of the cycle for piano four-hands, ""Ze Šumavy"" (From the Bohemian Forest) Op. 68, B. 133, composed in 1883. The work is also transcribed by the composer for cello and piano (B. 173) and for cello and orchestra (B. 182). The original piano cycle Op. 68 was composed in 1883 on demand of Fritz Simrock. As it was popular in the late nineteenth century to make arrangements of popular works for other"
"Woods). Like the other pieces in Op.68, ""Silent Woods"" is a lyrical character piece, bearing the tempo marking ""Lento e molto cantabile"" for the main, dreamy theme in D major, which is reprised (""Lento. Tempo I"") after a light intermezzo (""Un pochettino più mosso"") in C minor. Silent Woods (Dvořák) Silent Woods () is the translated title of the composition by Antonín Dvořák initially published under the German title Waldesruhe. It is the fifth part of the cycle for piano four-hands, ""Ze Šumavy"" (From the Bohemian Forest) Op. 68, B. 133, composed in 1883. The work is also transcribed by"
"the waltz 'Tales from the Vienna Woods'. Carla asks Strauss for some music to sing at an aristocratic soiree and this leads to the composer receiving a publishing contract. He's on his way, and he can now marry Poldi Vogelhuber, his sweetheart. But the closeness of Strauss and Carla Donner during rehearsals of operettas, atrracts comment, not least from Count Hohenfried, Donner's admirer. Poldi remains loyal to Strauss and the marriage is a long one. He is received by the Kaiser Franz Joseph I of Austria (whom he unknowingly insulted in the aftermath of the student protests) and the two"
"Walzer aus Wien Walzer aus Wien (""Waltzes from Vienna,"" titled ""The Great Waltz"" in English) is a singspiel pasticcio in three acts, libretto by Alfred Maria Willner, and Ernst Marischka, music by Johann Strauss II (son), arranged by Erich Wolfgang Korngold and Julius Bittner, first performed at the Stadttheater in Vienna on 30 October 1930. An English musical theatre adaptation called ""The Great Waltz"" played on Broadway in 1934, and another English version played in London in 1970. The libretto was translated into French by André Mouëzy-Éon and Jean Marietti, and first performed, under the title ""Valses de Vienne"" at"
"Otto Nicolai Carl Otto Ehrenfried Nicolai (9 June 1810 – 11 May 1849) was a German composer, conductor, and one of the founders of the Vienna Philharmonic. Nicolai is best known for his operatic version of Shakespeare's comedy ""The Merry Wives of Windsor"" as """". In addition to five operas, Nicolai composed lieder, works for orchestra, chorus, ensemble, and solo instruments. Nicolai, a child prodigy, was born in Königsberg, Prussia. He received his first musical education from his father, Carl Ernst Daniel Nicolai, who was also a composer and musical director. During his childhood his parents divorced, and while still"
"""Eine Ideale Wohnung"" (""An Ideal Flat""), and then on his ""Tales from the Vienna Woods"". Shot in Austria, this was a musical with tunes by Johann Strauss. Musicals were extremely popular, and Viennese operettas could always find an enthusiastic German audience. The Nazi government didn't encourage the production of propaganda movies - they knew that the public would best be reassured by comfy subjects. The New York Times called ""Tales from the Vienna Woods"" ""a tasty mélange of comedy and music"", and mentioned ""the little Dutch actress"". There weren't many Dutch film stars - the only other one was Lien"
"Waltzes from Vienna Waltzes from Vienna is a 1934 British musical film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, also known as Strauss' Great Waltz. It was part of the cycle of operetta films made in Britain during the 1930s. Hitchcock's film is based on the stage musical, ""Waltzes from Vienna"", which premiered in Vienna in October 1930. With a libretto by A. M. Willner, and Ernst Marischka, this stage production contains music by Johann Strauss I and Johann Strauss II, selected and arranged by Erich Wolfgang Korngold and Julius Bittner into discrete musical numbers. Hitchcock, however, did not include these musical numbers"
"Three Tales (opera) Three Tales is a video-opera in three acts (titled ""Hindenburg"", ""Bikini"" and ""Dolly"") with music by American composer Steve Reich and visuals by Beryl Korot, his wife. It is scored for two sopranos, three tenors, string quartet, percussion, keyboards, and pre-recorded audio. Its premiere was at the Vienna Festival on May 12, 2002; the BBC had commissioned a version for television broadcast four months later. The 12-minute tale ""Hindenburg"" had been written (and recorded) in 1998, while the remaining tales were completed (and recorded) in the year of the premiere. The musical narrative of ""Three Tales"" follows"
"Evans. The result was a spirited and lively album but, as with many follow-ups, one that never quite matched the original. Livingston and Evans composed some new material, including the title track, as well as providing some updated lyrics for some of the older material that Bing and Rosemary chose to include. Thus, the 1883 song about a Dublin fishmonger, “Molly Malone” became an updated “Daughter of Molly Malone”. A classical piece, Johann Strauss's “Tales from the Vienna Woods” became the “New Vienna Woods”, whilst the Latin standard “Cielito Lindo”” became “Adios, Senorita”. Critical response to the album was lukewarm"
"Felix Mendelssohn Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (3 February 1809 4 November 1847), born and widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early romantic period. Mendelssohn wrote symphonies, concertos, oratorios, piano music and chamber music. His best-known works include his Overture and incidental music for ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"", the ""Italian Symphony"", the ""Scottish Symphony"", the overture ""The Hebrides"", his mature Violin Concerto, and his String Octet. His ""Songs Without Words"" are his most famous solo piano compositions. After a long period of relative denigration due to changing musical tastes and antisemitism"
"Tyrol. Scharf finished his studies successfully in 1985. As the Bruckner-conservatory in Linz started to offer the subject zither Wilfried Scharf was offered a professorship there. He has performed since the late eighties and founded the ensemble ""Salzburger Saitenklang"" in 1982. Scharf made an appearance as soloist in Tales from the Vienna Woods at the Vienna New Year's Concert in 2014 with conductor being Daniel Barenboim. Wilfried Scharf Wilfried Scharf (* 9. April 1955 in Braunau am Inn) is an Austrian zither player and has been professor at the Anton Bruckner Private University for Music, Drama, and Dance in Linz"
"Wiener Frauen Wiener Frauen or 'Viennese Ladies' op. 423 is a waltz composed by Johann Strauss II in 1886. The waltz was originally titled 'Les dames de St. Peterburgh' when Strauss was invited by the 'Russian Red Cross Society' to conduct in St. Petersburg in that year. Strauss first performed the piece at the riding school of the Horse Guards Regiment in that city to great acclaim and was thoughtful enough to re-christen the waltz 'Wiener Frauen' in a homage to his Viennese admirers when he had it performed in Vienna later that year. The piece was among Strauss's last"
"The Book of the Hanging Gardens The Book of the Hanging Gardens (German: ), Op.15, is a fifteen-part song cycle composed by Arnold Schoenberg between 1908 and 1909, setting poems of Stefan George. George's poems, also under the same title, track the failed love affair of two adolescent youths in a garden, ending with the woman's departure and the disintegration of the garden. The song cycle is set for solo voice and piano. The ""Book of the Hanging Gardens"" breaks away from conventional musical order through its usage of atonality. The composition was premiered by Austrian singer Martha Winternitz-Dorda and"
"L'arbore di Diana L'arbore di Diana (""The Tree of Diana""), is an opera in two acts composed by Vicente Martín y Soler, with an original libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte. It premiered at the Burgtheater in Vienna on 1 October 1787. Da Ponte's librettos for ""L'arbore di Diana"" and ""Così fan tutte"" were the only ones of his not taken from an existing plot. The opera's premiere on 1 October 1787 marked a visit to Vienna of the niece of Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II, the Archduchess Maria Teresa, who was on her way to Dresden to marry Prince Anton"
"Viktor Léon Victor Léon, also Viktor Léon (born Victor Hirschfeld; 4 January 1858, Szenic, Nyitra County, Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire (today Senica, Slovakia) – 3 February 1940, Vienna) was a well-known Jewish Austrian-Hungarian librettist. He collaborated with Leo Stein to produce the libretto of Franz Lehár's romantic operetta ""The Merry Widow"" (""Die lustige Witwe""). Hirschfeld began a career as a journalist, and then branched out in the theatre under the pseudonym that was to become familiar - Viktor Léon. Between 1880 and 1884 he wrote one-act libretti for Vienna's variety theatre, the Carl-Schultze-Theater in Hamburg, and the German Theatre"
"From the Bavarian Highlands From the Bavarian Highlands, Op 27 is a work for choir and orchestra by Edward Elgar. It is a set of six choral songs Elgar wrote under the collective title Scenes from the Bavarian Highlands, as a remembrance of a holiday the Elgars had enjoyed in Upper Bavaria, mostly at Garmisch, in the autumn of 1894. The song lyrics were adapted to Elgar's music by the composer’s wife Alice with words ""adapted from the ""Volkslieder"" and ""Schnadahüpfler"""" imitating the spirit of the dances. Alice gave the songs sub-titles in recollection of favourite places visited during the"
"melody that moves in both hands, while both hands also play unchanging notes beneath the melody. The energetic runs of the final bars bring the set to a dramatic close. The ""Faschingsschwank aus Wien"" has been recorded many times, including outstanding live performances by Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli in 1957 and Sviatoslav Richter in 1962. Faschingsschwank aus Wien Faschingsschwank aus Wien (""Carnival Scenes from Vienna"" or ""Carnival Jest from Vienna""), Op. 26, is a solo piano work by Robert Schumann. He began composition of the work in 1839 in Vienna. He wrote the first four movements in Vienna, and the last"
"Faschingsschwank aus Wien Faschingsschwank aus Wien (""Carnival Scenes from Vienna"" or ""Carnival Jest from Vienna""), Op. 26, is a solo piano work by Robert Schumann. He began composition of the work in 1839 in Vienna. He wrote the first four movements in Vienna, and the last on his return to Leipzig. Eric Sams has noted that the word ""Faschingsschwank"" contains the letters ASCH SCHA in that order of appearance, and that Schumann used these notes in sequence as melodic material for this work. Robert Morgan has noted Schumann's use of Ludwig van Beethoven's Op. 26 as a model in this"
"Song of the Forests The Song of the Forests (""Песнь о лесах""), Op. 81, is an oratorio by Dmitri Shostakovich composed in the summer of 1949. It was written to celebrate the forestation of the Russian steppes following the end of World War II. Premiered by the Leningrad Philharmonic under Yevgeny Mravinsky on 15 November 1949, the work was well received by the government, earning the composer a Stalin Prize the following year. The oratorio is notorious for lines praising Joseph Stalin as the ""great gardener"", although its later performances have normally omitted them. The oratorio lasts around 40 minutes"
"The Seasons (Haydn) The Seasons (German: ""Die Jahreszeiten""), Hob. XXI:3), is an oratorio by Joseph Haydn, first performed in 1801. Haydn was led to write ""The Seasons"" by the great success of his previous oratorio ""The Creation"" (1798), which had become very popular and was in the course of being performed all over Europe. The libretto for ""The Seasons"" was prepared for Haydn, just as with ""The Creation"", by Baron Gottfried van Swieten, an Austrian nobleman who had also exercised an important influence on the career of Mozart (among other things commissioning Mozart's reorchestration of Handel's ""Messiah""). Van Swieten's libretto"
"Die Tageszeiten Die Tageszeiten (""Times of the Day"") is a choral composition written for male voice choir and orchestra by Richard Strauss (1864–1949), TrV 256, Op. 76 (published 1928). It consists of four movements: ""The Morning"", ""Afternoon Peace"", ""The Evening"" and ""The Night"". The lyrics are based on four poems of the same names by Joseph Eichendorff (1788–1857) from his collection ""Wanderlieder"" (Wanderers' songs). The work was premiered on 21 July 1928 with the (Vienna Schubert Society) and the Vienna Philharmonic as part of the Schubert centenary. On 1 May 1924, the male voice choir of the (Vienna Schubert Society)"
"Strauss' twentieth anniversary of his debut as a composer. Aus den Bergen Aus den Bergen (""From the Mountains""), opus 292, is the name of a waltz composed by Johann Strauss II. The work was first performed in Pavlovsk on October 2nd 1864, under the title ""In den Bergen"". The composition was dedicated to the music critic Eduard Hanslick. Critics commented on Strauss' waltz that ""after a long time a new waltz from Johann Strauss has appeared, which is distinguished by noble and graceful character, and further distinguished by extraordinarily masterful instrumentation."" The first Viennese performance of the waltz was in"
"successful himself, his career brought him in contact with the biggest stars of Viennese opera during his time. Léon's property was confiscated after Austria's annexation by Nazi Germany in 1938. He died of starvation while in hiding in 1940 at the age of 82. Viktor Léon Victor Léon, also Viktor Léon (born Victor Hirschfeld; 4 January 1858, Szenic, Nyitra County, Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire (today Senica, Slovakia) – 3 February 1940, Vienna) was a well-known Jewish Austrian-Hungarian librettist. He collaborated with Leo Stein to produce the libretto of Franz Lehár's romantic operetta ""The Merry Widow"" (""Die lustige Witwe""). Hirschfeld"
"Leon Jessel Leon Jessel, or Léon Jessel (January 22, 1871 – January 4, 1942) was a German composer of operettas and light classical music pieces. Today he is best known internationally as the composer of the popular jaunty march ""The Parade of the Tin Soldiers"", also known as ""The Parade of the Wooden Soldiers"". Jessel was a prolific composer who wrote hundreds of light orchestral pieces, piano pieces, songs, waltzes, mazurkas, marches, choruses, and other salon music. He achieved considerable acclaim with a number of his operettas — in particular ""Schwarzwaldmädel"" (""Black Forest Girl""), which remains popular to this day."
"unemployment and the Great Depression, the play is a key work of modern drama, described by Erich Kästner as ""a Viennese folk play accompanied by Viennese folk songs"". It is a bitter satire about the mendacity and brutality of the petite-bourgeoisie, named ironically after the Vienna Woods near the Austrian capital that are so idealised in the waltz. In the play, Viennese ""Gemütlichkeit"" or ""coziness"" becomes a hollow phrase; the tragic, brutal story of the sweet girl Marianne and the deeply conventional butcher Oskar reflects the hardships and anxieties of the late 1920s during the global economic crisis. The play"
"Paul Hindemith Paul Hindemith (; 16 November 1895 – 28 December 1963) was a prolific German composer, violist, violinist, teacher and conductor. In the 1920s, he became a major advocate of the ""Neue Sachlichkeit"" (new objectivity) style of music. Notable compositions include his song cycle ""Das Marienleben"" (1923), ""Der Schwanendreher"" for viola and orchestra (1935), and opera ""Mathis der Maler"" (1938). Hindemith's most popular work, both on record and in the concert hall, is likely the ""Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber"", written in 1943. Born in Hanau, near Frankfurt am Main, Hindemith was taught the violin"
"Arnold Weinstein Arnold Weinstein (June 10, 1927–September 4, 2005) was an American poet, playwright and librettist, who referred to himself as a ""theatre poet"". Weinstein is best known for his collaborations with composer William Bolcom, including the operas ""McTeague"", based on the novel by Frank Norris, ""A View from the Bridge"" based on the play by Arthur Miller, and ""A Wedding"", based on the film by Robert Altman. Bolcom described his work with Weinstein as a ""true collaboration"", and said about him that ""He had such a gift for writing words that were singable, and that gave character. He was"
"numerous operettas and three ballets, and assisted his friend Erich Wolfgang Korngold in the creation of the most successful of the Johann Strauss pastiches - ""Walzer aus Wien"" (premièred in Vienna on 30 October 1930), which became known in English as ""The Great Waltz"". http://www.momh.org.uk/exhibitions-detail.php?cat_id=5&prod_id=338&iotm=1 Julius Bittner Julius Bittner (born Vienna, 9 April 1874; died Vienna, 9 January 1939) was an Austrian composer. The son of a judge, Bittner also initially pursued a career in law. Until 1920 he was a judge in Wolkersdorf im Weinviertel, in Lower Austria. From 1920 to 1922 or 1923 he was an official in"
"Das Dreimäderlhaus Das Dreimäderlhaus (""House of the Three Girls""), adapted into English-language versions as Blossom Time and Lilac Time, is a Viennese pastiche operetta with music by Franz Schubert, rearranged by Hungarian Heinrich Berté (1857–1924), and a libretto by Alfred Maria Willner and . The work gives a fictionalized account of Schubert's romantic life, and the story was adapted from the 1912 novel ""Schwammerl"" by Rudolf Hans Bartsch (1873–1952). Originally the score was mostly Berté, with just one piece of Schubert's (""Ungeduld"" from ""Die schöne Müllerin""), but the producers required Berté to discard his score and create a pasticcio of"
"amalgam of through-composed conversations and encounters, punctuated by brief songs and ariettas""; the plot concerns the goddess Diana's attempts to defend her island as a stronghold of chastity. When confronted by the good-looking shepherd Doristo her defences fall down. ""L'arbore di Diana"", critical edition by Leonardo Waisman, IBERAUTOR/ICCMU. Madrid, 2001. L'arbore di Diana L'arbore di Diana (""The Tree of Diana""), is an opera in two acts composed by Vicente Martín y Soler, with an original libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte. It premiered at the Burgtheater in Vienna on 1 October 1787. Da Ponte's librettos for ""L'arbore di Diana"" and ""Così"
"recovery of the neglected works was the journey to Vienna which the music historian George Grove and the composer Arthur Sullivan made in October 1867. The travellers unearthed the manuscripts of six of the symphonies, parts of the incidental music to ""Rosamunde"", the Mass No. 1 in F major (D. 105), and the operas ""Des Teufels Lustschloss"" (D. 84), ""Fernardo"" (D. 220), ""Der vierjährige Posten"" (D. 190), and ""Die Freunde von Salamanka"" (D. 326), and several other unnamed works. With these discoveries, Grove and Sullivan were able to inform the public of the existence of these works; in addition, they"