The emperor's nightingale
The emperor's nightingale , also called The Nightingale ( Danish Nattergalen ), is an art fairy tale written by Hans Christian Andersen .
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The Emperor of China learns from a book that there is a nightingale in his empire that sings particularly beautifully. He hadn't known about her before. He goes looking for her, finds her and takes her to his palace . He loves the song of the nightingale very much. The emperor receives an artificial nightingale from the emperor of Japan . This is then preferred to the real nightingale, which escapes on it.
The artificial bird breaks at some point. When the real nightingale returns and saves the emperor from death, the emperor is infinitely grateful. The emperor must promise the bird not to tell anyone that he has a little bird that will tell him everything, then the emperor would be better off. The bird means that he will tell him what he hears on his travels among the people. The next morning, to everyone's surprise, the emperor is perfectly healthy again.
Musical reception
As the opera Le rossignol (French: The Nightingale ), the fairy tale was set to music in a libretto by the composer and Stepan Mitousoff by Igor Stravinsky between 1908 and 1914.
In 1959, Hans Werner Henze created a ballet pantomime based on the fairy tale ( L'usignolo dell'imperatore ; libretto: Giulio Di Majo).
Reiner Bredemeyer set the nightingale to music as a radio play in 1976 (director: Horst Liepach).
The Latvian composer Uģis Prauliņš realized the fairy tale musically in 2010 as a work for 20-part choir and recorders under the title The Nightingale . The approximately 30-minute concert premiered in Denmark in March 2011 with the Danish recorder player Michala Petri and was shown for the first time on a German stage in December 2013 by the SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart .
Michael Gees composed The Nightingale for piano. (ImproviSatie, Michael Gees on compositions by Erik Satie , CD, Challenge Classics CC72512, 2011; bonus track)
Bernhard Krol created Die Nachtigall, op.77.Fairy-tale picture sheet for shadow play , recorded by: Dortmunder Torhaus-Ensemble, Michaela Mehring, mezzo-soprano, Arndt Mehring, flute, Reinhard Kaufmann, piano Deutsche Harmonia Mundi CD 881 728-909
The Swedish composer Gunnar Valkare , (1943-) composed The Nightingale. The second flight of the mechanical heart . Recorded by the KammarensembleN, Ansgar Krook, conductor Phono Suecia PSCD 57
The New Zealand composer Jenny McLeod , (* 1941) set the fairy tale The emperor and the nightingale , recorded by: Helen Medlyn, narrator New Zealand Symphony Orchestra , Uwe Grodd , conductor Naxos CD 8.572671
literature
- Hans Christian Andersen: The most beautiful fairy tales
- The emperor's nightingale in the Gutenberg-DE project
- The emperor's nightingale in the Gutenberg-DE project
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Individual evidence
- ^ First performance in May 1914 at the Paris Opera by Diaghilev's Ballett Russes . ( According to the program Igor Stravinsky - The Nightingale. Chamber Opera in the Rathaushof, Konstanz 2011.)