Rodo fitter

Rodomonteur is an outdated term for a tailor . The term is derived from the French - Italian word Rodomontade (Aufschneiderei, Großsprecherei), which refers to the boasting hero and king of Algiers Rodomont (also: Rodomonte ) in the Roland epics of the Italian poets Boiardo ( Roland in love ) and Ariosto ( The mad Roland ) relates. A modification is the also outdated verb rodomontieren (cut open).

Music sample

Georg Philipp Telemann's Suite in B minor for solo violin, strings & bc (TWV 55: h4) ends with a "Rodomontade".

Quote

The music journalist Bernard Grun described the composer Paul Abraham in his cultural history of the operetta as follows: “Rodomonteur, Fantast, Epicurean; elegiac, depressed, hypochondriac; superficial and a pedant; apodictic and a doubter; casual and a fire spirit. "

Individual evidence

↑ Herders Conversations-Lexikon, 1st edition 1854–1857, Digital Library 133, Directmedia, Berlin 2005.
↑ The Great Duden . Foreign dictionary. 2. Improved and enlarged edition, Bibliographisches Institut, Mannheim Vienna Zurich 1966.
↑ Duden. The German orthography , 24th completely revised and expanded edition. Dudenverlag Mannheim Leipzig Vienna Zurich 2006, ISBN 978-3411040148 .
↑ Bernhard Grun: T he light muse. The cultural history of the operetta , Langen-Müller Verlag, Munich, 2nd edition 1961, p. 435.

[1] Herders Conversations-Lexikon, 1st edition 1854–1857, Digital Library 133, Directmedia, Berlin 2005.

[2] The Great Duden . Foreign dictionary. 2. Improved and enlarged edition, Bibliographisches Institut, Mannheim Vienna Zurich 1966.

[3] Duden. The German orthography , 24th completely revised and expanded edition. Dudenverlag Mannheim Leipzig Vienna Zurich 2006, ISBN 978-3411040148 .

[4] Bernhard Grun: T he light muse. The cultural history of the operetta , Langen-Müller Verlag, Munich, 2nd edition 1961, p. 435.