The poet and the composer

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The Poet and the Composer is a dialogue tale about the essence of the romantic opera by ETA Hoffmann , which was written in the early autumn of 1813 andanonymously preprintedin the Allgemeine Musikischen Zeitung in December of the same year. In 1819 the text appeared in the first section of the first volume of the collection Die Serapionsbrüder at G. Reimer in Berlin.

shape

The Serapion brother Theodor moves his listening brothers Lothar, Ottmar and Cyprian to tears: Finally, the four gentlemen from “ Golo and Genovefa ” sing in a choir.

In a conversation about art things like this one, not much happens. However, it was written down in Dresden in autumn 1813 under the impression of a battle . So we don't wonder about the frame. Two friends only meet for a short time. The poet Ferdinand suddenly rode into the tranquil day of the composer Ludwig. The rider can't make big words. Because after the manageable dialogue he has to get back on his horse straight away. Soon he will face the enemy again.

It is true that Ferdinand appears as a freedom fighter and Ludwig as a couch potato in poor circumstances, but in dialogue the composer Ludwig trumps and the poet Ferdinand can be told how an opera libretto should be built: "In a word, it is the magic of poetic truth, which the poet who portrays the wonderful must stand at his command, because only this can carry us away. "

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On the task of the librettist: “The poet prepares himself for a bold flight into the distant realm of romanticism; There he finds the wonderful things that he is supposed to bring into life, alive and shining in fresh colors, so that one willingly believes in it, even that, as in a blissful dream, one escapes even the meager, everyday life in the flower aisles of the romantic country, and only understands its language, which can be heard in music. "

Hoffmann's drawing in 1803:
Hoffmann and Hippel as sons of Zeus

background

In the summer of 1813 ETA Hoffmann composed his opera “ Undine ”. So the dialogue could be understood as an opera-theoretical writing with distributed roles. The author of the present story splits up as a poet and a composer. Ferdinand and Ludwig would then be mere mouthpieces for ETA Hoffmann. Safranski suggests another justifiable variation. The composer Ludwig is none other than ETA Hoffmann and the poet Ferdinand is his patriotic friend Hippel , the author of the appeal “ To Mein Volk ”. After allrogens, the friends met in Dresden at the end of April 1813.

reception

  • At that time the presence of friend and foe ( Napoleon ) in Dresden always changed once. Accordingly, ETA Hoffmann's opinion on the war would have fluctuated. Safranski says that ETA Hoffmann was probably not a great patriot - like Hippel. Rather, he saw the war not as a liberation, but as a demonic, destructive force.
  • Details can be found at Segebrecht. He also mentions works by Gerhard Allrogen ("Die Opern-Ästhetik ETA Hoffmanns", Regensburg 1969), Maurice M. Raraty (1972), Aubrey S. Garlington (1979), Judith Rohr ("ETA Hoffmanns theory of musical drama" Baden- Baden 1985), Steven Paul Scher (Berlin 1998) and Hartmut Steinecke (Berlin 1998). Kaiser also mentions Georg Wellenberger (1986).
  • ETA Hoffmann was a pioneer in music aesthetics. The two friends had discussed a question: "What are poems that appeal to music?"
  • Werner observed a “romanticization of reality” at ETA Hoffmann.
  • According to Safranski, that conversation revolves around the "primacy of the musical spirit over the word".

expenditure

  • First print in: Die Serapionsbrüder. Collected stories and fairy tales. Published by ETA Hoffmann. First volume. Berlin 1819. With G. Reimer. 604 pages.
  • ETA Hoffmann: All works in six volumes. Vol. 4: The Serapions Brothers. Edited by Wulf Segebrecht. Deutscher Klassiker Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-618-60880-2 . Paperback edition: Deutscher Klassiker Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-618-68028-4 .

literature

  • Hans-Georg Werner: ETA Hoffmann. Representation and interpretation of reality in poetic work . Arion Verlag, Weimar 1962.
  • Rüdiger Safranski : ETA Hoffmann. The life of a skeptical fantasist. 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2001 (1st edition 1984), ISBN 3-596-14301-2 .
  • Gerhard R. Kaiser: ETA Hoffmann. Metzler, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-476-10243-2 . (Metzler Collection; 243; realities on literature)
  • Gerhard Schulz : The German literature between the French Revolution and the restoration. Part Two: The Age of the Napoleonic Wars and the Restoration. 1806–1830 (= history of German literature from its beginnings to the present , edited by Helmut de Boor and Richard Newald, volume 7/2). Beck, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-406-09399-X .
  • Gerhard Allroggen: The musical work. I. Musical writings and reviews. 1. Hoffmann's work for the AMZ . 1.3 The poet and the composer . In: Detlef Kremer (Ed.): ETA Hoffmann. Life - work - effect . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-11-018382-5 , p. 415-416 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerhard Schulz: The German literature between the French Revolution and the restoration. Part Two: The Age of the Napoleonic Wars and the Restoration. 1806–1830 (= history of German literature from its beginnings to the present , edited by Helmut de Boor and Richard Newald, volume 7/2). Munich 1989, p. 437, 7. Zvo
    ETA Hoffmann: The Serapions Brothers. Edited by Wulf Segebrecht. Frankfurt am Main 2008, p. 103, 28. Zvo
  2. ↑ Hoffmann: Die Serapions-Brüder , Frankfurt am Main 2008, p. 1297, 7th Zvu
  3. ↑ Hoffmann: The Serapions Brothers. Frankfurt am Main 2008, p. 1221, 4. Zvo and p. 1681 above.
  4. ↑ Hoffmann: The Serapions Brothers. Frankfurt am Main 2008, p. 94, 24. Zvo
  5. ↑ Hoffmann: The Serapions Brothers. Frankfurt am Main 2008, p. 121, 28. Zvo and p. 1305, 8. Zvo
  6. ^ Rüdiger Safranski: ETA Hoffmann. Second edition. Frankfurt am Main 2001, p. 284, 5. Zvo
  7. ↑ Hoffmann: The Serapions Brothers. Frankfurt am Main 2008, p. 104, 8. Zvo
  8. ↑ Hoffmann: The Serapions Brothers. Frankfurt am Main 2008, p. 103, 16. Zvo
  9. ^ Safranski: ETA Hoffmann. Frankfurt am Main 2001, p. 283, 17. Zvo
  10. ^ Safranski: ETA Hoffmann. Frankfurt am Main 2001, p. 280, 13th Zvu and p. 283, 4th Zvu
  11. ↑ Detlef Kremer (Ed.): ETA Hoffmann. Life - work - effect. Berlin 2009, p. 415, 3rd Zvu
  12. ^ Safranski: ETA Hoffmann. Frankfurt am Main 2001, p. 284, 2nd Zvu and p. 104, 11th Zvu
  13. ↑ Hans-Georg Werner: ETA Hoffmann. Weimar 1962, p. 35, 18. Zvu
  14. ↑ Hoffmann: The Serapions Brothers. Frankfurt am Main 2008, pp. 1297-1305.
  15. ↑ Hoffmann: The Serapions Brothers. Frankfurt am Main 2008, p. 1667, 2nd Zvu
  16. ^ Gerhard R. Kaiser: ETA Hoffmann. Stuttgart 1988, p. 82.
  17. ^ Gerhard Schulz: The German literature between the French Revolution and the restoration. Second part 1806-1830. Munich 1989, p. 258, 5th Zvu
  18. ↑ Kremer (Ed.): ETA Hoffmann. Life - work - effect. Berlin 2009, p. 416, 16. Zvo
  19. ^ Werner: ETA Hoffmann. Weimar 1962, p. 40, 19th Zvu
  20. ^ Safranski: ETA Hoffmann. Frankfurt am Main 2001, p. 284, 8. Zvo
  21. ↑ Hoffmann: The Serapions Brothers. Frankfurt am Main 2008, p. 1221 above.