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Heinrich Marschner, lithograph after a drawing by F. A. Jung, c. 1830 Heinrich August Marschner (16 August 1795 – 14 December 1861) was a German composer best known for his operas. He is considered to be the most important composer of German opera between Weber and Wagner .
Heinrich August Marschner (born Aug. 16, 1795, Zittau, Saxony—died Dec. 14, 1861, Hannover, Hanover) was a composer who helped establish the style of German Romantic opera. Marschner studied law at Leipzig , but, encouraged by Ludwig van Beethoven , whom he met in Vienna in 1817, and others, he turned to composing.
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2 acts. Wilhelm August Wohlbrück, after Heinrich Ludwig Ritter's Der Vampir oder die Totenbraut and John Polidori 's The Vampyre. 29 March 1828. Leipzig, Stadt. Der Templer und die Jüdin, Op. 60. grosse romantische Oper. 3 acts. Wilhelm August Wohlbrück, after Johann Reinhold von Lenz's Das Gericht der Templer and Sir Walter Scott 's Ivanhoe.
TitleGenreSubdivisionsLibrettoLa clemenza di Tito3 actsCaterino Mazzola, after MetastasioHeinrich IV und D'Aubignégrosse Oper3 actsAugust Gottlieb HornbostelDer Kiffhäuser Berg1 actDer Holzdieb1 actHeinrich August Marschner (* 16. August 1795 in Zittau; † 14. Dezember 1861 in Hannover) war ein deutscher Komponist der Romantik, Musikdirektor in Dresden und Kapellmeister in Leipzig, ab 1831 königlicher Hofkapellmeister in Hannover. Seine Opern machten ihn zwischen 1830 und 1850 zu einem der führenden deutschen Opernkomponisten ...
Marschner was also well-known to his contemporaries as a prolific composer of songs, male voice part-songs and instrumental music. The songs and ballads include settings (in translation) of Burns, Byron and other British poets. Among the operas, The Vampire with Henry Phillips in the title-role, enjoyed a successful run at London’s English ...
Heinrich Marschner. Although his work has been generally neglected in the 20th century, Heinrich Marschner was a leading figure in German Opera in the period between Weber and Wagner, and wrote twenty-three operas and singspiels. He was born in Zittau, in 1795, and although studied law at the University of Leipzig, spent a considerable time ...
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Der Vampyr ( The Vampire) is a Romantic opera in two acts by Heinrich Marschner. The German libretto by Wilhelm August Wohlbrück (Marschner's brother-in-law) is based on the play Der Vampir oder die Totenbraut (1821) by Heinrich Ludwig Ritter, which itself was based on the short story The Vampyre (1819) by John Polidori.
