Astutuli

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Data
Title: Astutuli
Original language: Bavarian
Author: Carl Orff
Music: Carl Orff
Publishing year: 1953
Premiere: October 20, 1953
Place of premiere: Münchner Kammerspiele , Munich
Place and time of the action: The story goes back to time immemorial.
people
  • Two Landsterzer
  • Two burgers
  • Jörg Zaglstecher , the mayor
  • His daughter Fundula
  • Hortula and
  • Vellicula , playmates
  • Three sponsors
  • The three from the highly wise council
  • Wunibald Hirnstößl , the watchman
  • The strange gagler
  • The traveler
  • Burger of a small old town
  • Men and women
  • Old and young

Astutuli is a 1953 “Bavarian Comedy” by Carl Orff . It uses a historicizing Bavarian language and takes about 50 minutes.

action

The satyr play is about the "rather clever people who think they are particularly clever", which the Latin title Astutuli describes in standard German.

In a small town has a traveling Gagler (jugglers) announced a theater performance, and all citizens are curious to the spectacle not to be missed. The Gagler first conjures up the Onuphri (a Byzantine giant) and then the Goggolori (a Bavarian goblin) so vividly that all viewers are convinced of their presence, although in fact they could not see anything at all. Prepared in this way, the audience is amazed to see the following vision of the “Kokan” country , which promises a life in abundance and without work. The Gagler convinced his audience that anyone could get into this country if he just put on the "Kokan garment", and soon after the emperor's new clothes , everyone got rid of their own clothes to try on the invisible "Kokan garment". The discarded clothes are picked up by the traveler , the Gagler's accomplice , and in an unobserved moment the two of them run away with the people's belongings. When the citizens notice the disappearance, they believe they can find the culprits in two Landsterzern, but they manage to convince them that the real culprits are sitting in the auditorium, which the betrayed citizens use as an opportunity to abuse the audience . But then the Gagler returns again disguised and explains to the citizens that he can make gold out of trouser buttons. In the hope of getting rich soon without commitment, everyone begins to dance while the impostor runs away one last time.

Emergence

The work was created between 1945 and 1946 directly after the Bernauerin . Together with the Bernauerin , the Ludus de nato Infante mirificus and the Comoedia de Christi resurrectione , Astutuli forms Orff's Bavarian World Theater , the unifying element of which is the use of the Bavarian language .

Hans Schweikart staged the premiere on October 20, 1953 at the Münchner Kammerspiele .

The work exists as a pure recitation in a television recording by the composer, who speaks all the roles himself.

Stylistic position

Despite the constant use of an orchestra, the play is not an opera, but a piece for speakers who, however, present their text in a rhythm dictated by the composition. The orchestra, reduced to pure percussion , also emphasizes the predominance of the rhythmic element.

Orff borrowed the inspiration for his comedy from Entremés The Wonder Theater by Miguel de Cervantes . The piece could be interpreted as a reflex to the seductiveness of the masses in the time of the Third Reich , but Orff did not care about current references: he let eight years pass between the creation and the premiere.

Instrumentation

3 timpani , 1 xylophone , 1 pair of hand drums ( bongos ), 2 small drums , 3 stirring drums, 1 tambourine , 1 bass drum , 1 bass drum with cymbals , 1 cymbal, 1 pair of cymbals, 1 pair of cymbals , 3 wooden block drums , 1 stone game , 4 to 5 glasses ( goblet glasses , rubbed at the edge with fingers, in small seconds next to each other - very high - tuned), rattles , castanets , ratchet , wind machine , tuba . On the stage : a suspended cymbal. (8 to 9 players)

literature

Phonograms and films

  • Carl Orff: A Christmas game. An Easter game. Astutuli. RCA Classics [2 CD].
  • Carl Orff: Astutuli. Carl Orff DVD Edition. Schott Music, Mainz 2007, ISBN 978-3-7957-7831-6 [DVD].

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