The funny musicians

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Clemens Brentano
(1778-1842)

Die Lustigen Musikanten is a Singspiel by Clemens Brentano , which was written in November 1802 in four days for a Düsseldorf theater group and was published by Bernhard Körner in Frankfurt am Main in 1803. On New Year's Eve 1804 it was premiered by Georg Wenzel Ritter under the title “The New Year in Famagusta ” at the Mannheim National Theater. On April 6, 1805, government councilor ETA Hoffmann led the performance of his setting at the Deutsches Theater in Warsaw. Hoffmann writes on it: "The text was displeased."

People and backgrounds

The action takes place in Famagusta.

  • Ramiro and Azelle are siblings from the Duchy of Samarkand. Both rule. Ramiro is Duke of Samarkand and Azelle is Duchess of Famagusta. Azelle's father had the enemy Famagusta conquered and given the duchy to his daughter.
  • Rinaldo and Fabiola are siblings from the Duchy of Famagusta. The father, formerly ruler of Famagusta, a "Wüthrich", had not recognized Rinaldo as a prince and had him abandoned. Rinaldo had risen to become the Samarkander commander and, ignorant of his origins, had conquered his own hometown ten years before the start of the action. The mother had previously lost her second child, Fabiola. Fearing her husband's jealousy, she had secretly taken the little girl into care with her boyfriend, Piast.
  • Piast is a Norwegian nobleman who was brought up together with his mother Rinaldos and Fabiolas. He had followed the youth companion to the court of Famagusta. The ruler of Famagusta had Piast's eyes gouged out because he had mistaken the Norwegian for Rinaldo's father.
  • Truffaldin , night watchman and astronomer in Famagusta, used to roam the country with the blind Piast.
  • Pantalon , Mayor of Famagusta
  • Tartaglia , Minister of Samarkand

action

Tartaglia and Pantalon meet in Famagusta. The minister is looking for his Duke Ramiro. The mayor recommends Tartaglia that he should look for the Duchess Azelle at the same time. That would have been gone for months. Rumor has it that Azelle is in love with Rinaldo, the general of her late father. Azelle even offered the crown to Rinaldo. It is said that the Duke followed a beautiful young beggar woman who was traveling with her blind father and a lame boy Eusebio. At the turn of the year those beggars appear as the three funny musicians in Famagusta. The beggar Fabiola sings:

Listen, the flute complains again
And the cool fountains rustle.

Piast recalls:

Golden tones blow down,
Silence, silence, let's listen!

Ramiro comes and confesses to Piast his love for Fabiola. Pantalon wants to arrest the musicians because he suspects Duke Ramiro to be with them. It doesn't come to that. Ramiro bribes the guards and pretends to be defensive. The wandering siblings Ramiro and Azelle meet in the dilapidated old castle, the former ruler's seat. Ramiro, at the destination of his wishes, confesses to the sister: "I followed beggars and found treasures." Azelle has not yet found Rinaldo.

Piast puts Rinaldo and Fabiola in the picture. They are siblings and the blind man is not Fabiola's father. The happy ending: the four heads of the two previously warring duchies fraternize to the applause of the people of Famagusta.

Poetry

Truffaldin sings before the night sky:

O all you dear stars,
O would not be so far from her!
I loved to ask you
So that I can learn from you.
But alas! my perspective
It's so cloudy, so short, so crooked
And the sky is so deep
That even if I wasn't asleep
I always do
Your shimmer
I fathom
Never invent
The thread of fate
And if I look blind

After the flute solo, Piast sings:

Through the night that embrace me
Looks to the light of tones

reception

  • The songs of the “poor, heartbroken musicians” sound funny.
  • Schulz: The viewer encounters characters from the Commedia dell'arte - for example Truffaldin , Pantalon and Tartaglia . The neighborhood relationships between the territories that occur appear to have been invented like operettas.
  • Riley names further leading works: PH Gehly (1933), L. Jessel (1971), Heinz Rölleke (1973 and 1974) and Werner Bellmann (1981).

literature

  • Wolfgang Pfeiffer-Belli: Clemens Brentano. A romantic poet's life. 214 pages. Herder publishing house, Freiburg im Breisgau 1947. Direction de l'Education Publique GMZFO
  • Werner Vordtriede (ed.): Clemens Brentano. The poet about his work. 324 pages. dtv Munich 1978 (© 1970 Heimeran Verlag Munich), ISBN 3-423-06089-1
  • Konrad Feilchenfeldt : Brentano Chronicle. Data on life and work. With illustrations. 207 pages. Carl Hanser, Munich 1978. Series Hanser Chroniken, ISBN 3-446-12637-6
  • Werner Bellmann : On the history of the impact of Brentano's "Funny Musicians" . In: Yearbook of the Free German Hochstift 1981. pp. 338–342.
  • Gerhard Schulz : The German literature between the French Revolution and the restoration. Part 1. The Age of the French Revolution: 1789–1806. 763 pages. Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-00727-9
  • Helene M. Kastinger Riley : Clemens Brentano. Metzler Collection, Vol. 213. Stuttgart 1985. 166 pages, ISBN 3-476-10213-0
  • Hartwig Schultz (Ed.): Clemens Brentano. 1778–1842 on the 150th anniversary of his death. 341 pages. Peter Lang, Bern 1993, ISBN 3-906750-94-9
  • Hartwig Schultz: Clemens Brentano. With 20 illustrations. 224 pages. Reclam Stuttgart 1999. Series of literature studies. Universal Library No. 17614, ISBN 3-15-017614-X

Quoted text edition

Individual evidence

“Source” means the quoted text output in the spelling (page, line from above).

  1. ↑ Pfeiffer-Belli, p. 97, 12. Zvo
  2. ^ Vordtriede, p. 167 first entry: Brentano on November 15, 1802 to Antonie Brentano and p. 168, first entry: Brentano on December 1, 1802 to Savigny .
  3. ↑ Source, p. 799
  4. ↑ Schultz anno 1999, p. 167, 8. Zvo; see also: Georg Wenzel Ritter (1748–1808): Short biography ( memento of the original from 23 September 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in English @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.classicsonline.com
  5. ↑ Feilchenfeldt, p. 41, entry January 1, 1804
  6. ^ Pfeiffer-Belli, p. 97, 15. Zvo
  7. ↑ Schultz anno 1993, p. 255, second entry 1805
  8. ↑ Schultz anno 1999, p. 167, 10. Zvo
  9. ↑ Pfeiffer-Belli, p. 97, 18. Zvo
  10. ^ Source, p. 819, 9th line.
  11. ↑ Source, p. 813, 10th line.
  12. ↑ Source, p. 819, 19th line.
  13. ^ Pfeiffer-Belli, p. 97, 14. Zvo
  14. ↑ Schulz, p. 550, 7th Zvu
  15. ↑ Norway and Samarkand are quite a long way from Cyprus .
  16. ^ Riley, p. 141, third entry