The brave Cassian

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Data
Title: The brave Cassian
Genus: Puppet show in one act, burlesque
Original language: German
Author: Arthur Schnitzler
Music: Oscar Straus (2nd version)
Publishing year: 1904
Premiere: November 22, 1904
Place of premiere: Small theater in Praterstrasse , Vienna
Place and time of the action: In the attic room in the style of the end of the XVII. Century in a small German town in the 17th century.
people
  • Martin
  • Sophie
  • Cassian

The Brave Cassian is a one-act puppet show by Arthur Schnitzler . It premiered on November 22nd, 1904 - together with the one-act play The Green Cockatoo - in the Small Theater in Praterstrasse . The revised version with music by Oscar Straus was performed on October 30, 1909 in Leipzig. It was first published in 1909 and 1910 by S. Fischer Verlag .

background

: Oscar Straus in a photograph by Ludwig Gutmann, 1907

The veil of Pierrette and The brave Cassian occupy a special position , because Schnitzler wrote both works directly for music. In contrast to The Green Cockatoo , the piece fell through with the audience when it premiered in November 1904. Schnitzler later turned the burlesque into a singspiel . In this version, for which Oskar Straus wrote the music, it was re-performed and published in 1909.

During the revision, Schnitzler intensified “the comic element with which he hyperbolically parodies the classic salon drama ; he also added new lyrics. The dramatic conflict, miniaturized in the costume of the puppet show - Cassian wins against Martin in play, in love and in a duel - shrinks to the realm of the tangible. "

Schnitzler had experimented with anti-illusionist dramaturgy in The Green Cockatoo , as well as in his puppet plays The Brave Cassian (1904) and Zum Großer Wurstel (1905).

action

The student Martin leaves his girlfriend Sophie to hang out with a dancer. His cousin, the brave Cassian , then conquers Sophie and kills Martin; but in the end he too feels drawn to the dancer.

Book editions

  • The brave Kassian. Singspiel in one act . Music by Oscar Straus. Text book. Leipzig 1909.
  • The brave Kassian . Berlin: S. Fischer 1910.
  • Collected Works. The plays . Berlin: S. Fischer 1912
  • The brave Cassian. Puppet show in one act . With stone drawings by Oskar Laske . Vienna u. Leipzig, Karl König, (1922)
  • Arthur Schnitzler: The Dramatic Works. Volume 1 , Frankfurt a. M .: S. Fischer 1962

literature

  • Giuseppe Farese: Arthur Schnitzler: A life in Vienna 1862-1931. Munich: CH Beck, 1999, ISBN 3-406-45292-2 / 3-406-45292-2
  • Schnitzler Handbook: Life - Work - Effect , edited by Christoph Jürgensen, Wolfgang Lukas, Michael Scheffel. JB Metzler Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-476-02448-0

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Schnitzler, Horváth, Haas: Austrian music magazine 04/2016 , published by the European Music Research Association Vienna. 2016
  2. ↑ Reinhard Urbach: Schnitzler. Friedrich Verlag, 1972, p. 69
  3. ↑ See Arthur Schnitzler's large reading book . Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verl. : Frankfurt am Main, 2005. ISBN 3-596-50896-7 .