Palatinate musicians
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| Title: | Palatinate musicians |
| Shape: | operetta |
| Original language: | German |
| Music: | Hans Striehl |
| Libretto : | Kurt Neufert |
| Premiere: | March 1, 1956 |
| Place of premiere: | Linz |
| Place and time of the action: | Palatinate region around 1955 |
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Pfälzer Musikanten is a grand operetta in two acts (four) pictures by Hans Striehl . Kurt Neufert wrote the libretto . The work was premiered on March 1, 1956 in the Landestheater in Linz ( Upper Austria ).
orchestra
Two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two saxophones, a bassoon, three horns, three trumpets, three trombones, a piano, large percussion and strings. Stage music requires a clarinet, a trumpet and four accordions for the first act and a small peasant band with a clarinet, trumpet, trombone and drum for the second act.
Sequence of images
Act I , picture 1: market place of the musicians village, picture 2: fairground in the forest;
Act II , picture 3: anteroom and hall in the town hall, picture 4: market square in Deidesheim
action
An unspecified village in the Palatinate region has offered a prize for the best musician on the occasion of the annual wine festival. Bertel Petermann was the last participant to register for the competition. He only recently returned to his home country from an extended stay abroad. The audience expects him to play a clarinet solo like his fellow musicians; but to the surprise of many, he blows a saxophone. The wealthy winery owner Mathilde Tillmann is particularly appalled by this. When she also notices that her daughter Else has had an eye on the young man and he is reciprocating her feelings, she freaks out. She succeeds in influencing the jury that Bertel is disqualified. The musician leaves his hometown grumpy. Else joins him.
On the Tuesday after Pentecost, the citizens of Deidesheim celebrate the annual billy goat auction festival . One of the highlights of the accompanying program will be the performance of the famous saxophonist Bert Berté. Bertel Petermann is behind this name. His performance turned out to be a real triumph. Even the winery owner Tillmann, who also found her way to Deidesheim, is deeply impressed by the young lad's art. Someone who is celebrated by the people like him would now come to her mind as a son-in-law. She is reconciled with her daughter and gives her the motherly blessing for an immediate engagement to the Palatinate musician. Perhaps the fame of the future son-in-law will rub off on her too.
music
The composer strikes a few notes in his score that have never been heard in the genre of post-war operettas. He cannot and does not want to hide the fact that Paul Hindemith was his teacher. Presumably it is precisely due to his slightly avant-garde music that the operetta was not received so enthusiastically by the audience and is now almost forgotten.
literature
- Hellmuth Steger / Karl Howe: Operettenführer , Fischer Bücherei Frankfurt am Main, Paperback No. 225 (1958)