Friedemann Bach (opera)

Friedemann Bach is an opera in three acts by Paul Graener (music) and Rudolf Lothar (libretto). The text is based on the "biographical" novel of the same name by Albert Emil Brachvogel . The title character is the composer Wilhelm Friedemann Bach . But the plot is fictitious. The opera premiered on November 13, 1931 in Schwerin .

action

Johann Sebastian Bach sent his son Friedemann to a musical competition in Dresden. There he met the girl Antonie, with whom he fell in love. She too is not averse to his wooing. In addition, Friedemann embarks on an adventure with the countess. The count finds out about him and condemns him to imprisonment. Two years later, Antonie frees her lover by agreeing to marry the unloved Baron Sipmann.

Soon after Friedemann's release, a friend asked him to take his place on the organ at a church wedding. Little does he know that his still beloved Antonie is the bride. When Friedemann sings the song he composed, Kein Hälmlein grows auf Erden , Antonie recognizes who is sitting on the organ bench. Then she rushes up to him. Friedemann breathes his life into her arms.

literature

• Hertha Bauer: Pocket dictionary for operas, operettas and ballets (= Humboldt-Taschenbuch. No. 27). Humboldt, Frankfurt am Main and Vienna 1954, p. 69.