The Dreimäderlhaus
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| Title: | The Dreimäderlhaus |
| Shape: | Singspiel |
| Original language: | German |
| Music: | Franz Schubert edited by Heinrich Berté |
| Libretto : | Alfred Maria Willner and Heinz Reichert |
| Literary source: | Mushrooms by Rudolf Heinz Bartsch |
| Premiere: | January 15, 1916 |
| Place of premiere: | Vienna |
| Playing time: | about two hours |
| Place and time of the action: | Vienna 1826 |
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The Dreimäderlhaus is a singspiel in three acts by Heinrich Berté . The central figure of the operetta is the composer Franz Schubert , whose music Berté based his score in a slightly edited form. The libretto was written by Alfred Maria Willner and Heinz Reichert . It is based on the novel Schwammerl by Rudolf Hans Bartsch . The work had its world premiere on January 15, 1916 in the Raimund Theater in Vienna .
orchestra
Two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, a harp, percussion and strings
action
The operetta is set in Vienna in 1826, two years before Schubert's death.
The court glazier Christian Tschöll and his wife Marie have three pretty daughters of marriageable age: Hederl, Haiderl and Hannerl. All three still live with their parents, which is why their property is affectionately known by many as the “Dreimäderlhaus”. The composer Franz Schubert has also found a place to stay in this house. Once again he receives his friends Franz von Schober , Moritz von Schwind , Johann Michael Vogl and Leopold Kupelwieser in the courtyard . They are in a good mood, they talk to the wine and they sing. At the table next door, the three girls have sat down with the master saddler Andreas Bruneder and the postman Ferdinand Binder. What old Tschöll does not yet know, but suspects: his daughters Hederl and Haiderl recently got engaged to the two cavaliers. When they see their future father-in-law approaching, they quickly run away. Franz von Schober informs Tschöll about the engagement of his daughters Hederl and Haiderl to Andreas Bruneder and Ferdinand Binder and defies him for his blessing.
Hannerl fell in love with Schubert. In order to be close to him as often as possible, she asks him to give her singing lessons. The composer is only too happy to do this, as he has his eyes on the girl himself. But he's too shy to confess his love to her.
Hederl and Bruneder as well as Haiderl and Binder celebrate a double wedding. Johann Michael Vogl, the darling of the Vienna Court Opera, performs a few songs by his friend Schubert. The audience goes wild with enthusiasm. The invited guests also include the female star of the court theater, the soprano Lucia Grisi. She is a somewhat easy-going person who has a relationship with two men at the same time, one with Franz von Schober and the other with a Scandinavian diplomat. When she notices how Schober is talking to Hannerl, she is seized with jealousy. She sees a rival in Hannerl and confides in her that Franz is an extremely reckless man who is not worthy of her. Hannerl believes the singer was referring to Franz Schubert. From then on, her interest in the musician has ceased.
With the exception of Hannerl and her parents, all the guests have now left the party. Suddenly Schubert and Schober return again. The latter wants to fulfill a request from his friend Schubert and sings his song
I like to cut it into every bark,
I like to dig it into every pebble,
I would like to sow it on every fresh bed
With cress seeds that reveal it quickly,
On every white piece of paper I would like to write:
Your is my heart . Yours is my heart
and should it stay forever, forever.
With this, Schubert aims to make a declaration of love for his adored Hannerl in his own way. But Hannerl does not notice what is behind it. Rather, she believes that Franz von Schober is courting her and that he is also quite delightful. It doesn't take long and these two have become a couple. Franz Schubert gives up and seeks consolation in his beloved music.
Reception history
Heinrich Berté was a relatively unsuccessful composer of ballets and an opera at the beginning of his career . In 1911 the writer Alfred Maria Willner offered him a libretto for an operetta about Franz Schubert based on the novel Schwammerl by Rudolf Hans Bartsch , which he first composed with his own music, but after realizing the unsuccessful arrangement of well-known music by Franz Schubert.
After the extremely successful world premiere, the work was soon translated into 22 languages and performed in more than 60 countries. The first productions in Vienna, Berlin a. a. Venues had more than 600 performances. Although highly criticized, the work of which was Fledermaus by Johann Strauss (son) , the operetta most played.
In 1921 Sigmund Romberg adapted the operetta music to the musical Blossom Time for Broadway and in 1922 George H. Clutsam as Lilac Time for the Lyric Theater in London's West End .
In 1927 the work was the subject of a lawsuit filed by Emil Berté, the author's stepson, at the Vienna Commercial Court for the payment of royalties .
music
The work consists of 15 numbers with connecting dialogues. The music numbers were put together from well-known works by Franz Schubert and edited slightly. The music of the operetta is therefore a pasticcio .
Film adaptations
The play was filmed in 1918 by Richard Oswald ( Das Dreimäderlhaus ) and in 1958 by Ernst Marischka (also as Das Dreimäderlhaus ).
Recordings / sound carriers
- Fox Records 2130031, 1997
- Complete recording by CAPRICCIO from 1997 with Thomas Dewald, Bernhard Schneider , Bernhard Hüsgen, Christian Hilz and Daniel Kirch in the leading roles. The Cologne Radio Orchestra will play under the direction of Alfred Walter .
literature
- Sabine Giesbrecht-Schutte : "Complaints of a Troubadour". To popularize Schubert in the Dreimäderlhaus . In: Martin Geck, Festschrift for the 65th birthday, ed. v. Ares Rolf and Ulrich Tadday, Dortmund 2001, pp. 109-133. [Note: not viewed for this article]
Web links
- Photograph of the historic Dreimäderlhaus on Vienna.CC , accessed on December 6, 2014.
- DAS DREIMÄDERLHAUS Singspiel in 3 acts in the Operetta Research Center, accessed on December 6, 2014.
- The Dreimäderlhaus , in the Operetten-Lexikon, accessed on December 6, 2014.
Individual evidence
- ^ William A. Everett: Sigmund Romberg . Yale University Press, 2007 ISBN 0-300-13835-0
- ↑ From the courtroom. The royalties of the “Dreimäderlhaus”. In: Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt (No. 22643/1927), September 30, 1927, p. 10 middle. (Online at ANNO ). .