Humorous
The humoresque is in literature the generic name of a humorous story or short story and in music the name for a short, cheerful, funny or comical instrumental piece .
The humoresque in literature
The term humoresque originated in the first decade of the 19th century and was formed analogously to the terms grotesque , burlesque and arabesque . The humoresque was initially a short, cheerful, harmless, amiable, conciliatory and humorous story that often took up events from bourgeois and established everyday life, and therefore takes place in bourgeois relationships. Since the 1820s, humorous and increasingly satirical novels (humoresque novels) are also referred to as humoresques.
Classic representatives of the humorous novel are Jean Paul , Adolf Stern , Henry Fielding , and Charles Dickens .
The humoresque in music
Joseph Küffner first introduced the term into music in 1837 with his humoresque D major op. 276, a series of waltzes with an introduction and finale . Robert Schumann's Humoreske op. 20 from 1839, on the other hand, based on Jean Paul , showed a direct reference to literature. Schumann was able to allow himself compositional freedoms under the name of humoristic and free his work from traditional formal rules.
Other main characteristics of the humoresque genre are the brevity and cheerful character of the clay piece, its depth and richness of contrast. The humorous style was particularly cultivated in 19th century music and was mostly composed for the piano. Preforms of the humoresque are the scherzino and the burlesque .
The term was adopted by other composers, for example:
- Antonín Dvořák , Humoresques Op. 101
- Edvard Grieg , Humoresken , Op. 6th
- Engelbert Humperdinck , Humoresque E major for orchestra
- Georg Schumann , including humoresque in variation, yesterday evening cousin Michel was here Op. 74 (orchestral humoresque)
literature
The humoresque in literature
- Reinhold Grimm: Concept and genre humoresque. In: Yearbook of the Jean Paul Society. 3, 1968, ISSN 0075-3580 , pp. 145-164.
- Dieter Burdorf, Christoph Fasbender, Burkhard Moennighoff (Hrsg.): Metzler Literature Lexicon. Terms and definitions. 3rd completely revised edition. Metzler, Stuttgart et al. 2007, ISBN 978-3-476-01612-6 .
- Anton Chekhov : Humoresques and Satires. 2 volumes. Edited and translated by Peter Urban . Diogenes, Zurich 2001, ISBN 3-257-06266-4 .
The humoresque in music
- Bernhard Appel: R. Schumanns Humoreske for piano op. 20. On musical humor in the first half of the 19th century with special consideration of the problem of form. Dissertation. Saarbrücken University, Saarbrücken 1981.
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The humoresque in literature
- Carl Maria Seyppel, Smart, Schläuer, am Schläusten, Egyptian humoresque , written down and painted 1315 years before Christ by CM Seyppel, court painter and poet to His Majesty the King Rhampsinit III, Memphis, Mumienstraße No 35, 3rd floor, 4x bells, excavated book, Düsseldorf, Bagel, 1882; DFG project "Digitized historical children's books"
The humoresque in music
Individual evidence
- ^ Matthias Henke : Küffner, Joseph (Georg) . In The Music Past and Present . Second, revised edition, person part 10, Kassel et altera 2003, column 801.