Die_Rose_vom_Liebesgarten

<i>Die Rose vom Liebesgarten</i>

Die Rose vom Liebesgarten

Opera by Hans Pfitzner

Die Rose vom Liebesgarten is a 1900 opera by Hans Pfitzner to a libretto by James Grun, one of Pfitzner's fellow students at the Frankfurt Conservatory, which had been prompted by an 1890 painting by Hans Thoma Der Wächter vor dem Liebesgarten.

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The first act was first premiered in concert in March 1900 where it was poorly received between two pieces by Richard Strauss.[1] The premiere 9 November 1901 in Elberfeld was better received, followed by performances in Mannheim, Bremen, Munich and Hamburg. The opera was published in 1901[2] and received its first truly successful staging by Mahler in Vienna in 1905.[3][4]

References

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    Michael H. Kater Composers of the Nazi Era: Eight Portraits -0195356764 - 1999 Page 173 "It began in March 1900 when in a Berlin concert the first act of Pfitzner's Die Rose vom Liebesgarten was disadvantageously wedged between Strauss's Tod und Verklarung and Ein Heldenleben. The audience's reaction amounted to a triumph for Strauss and a humiliation..."
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    Bruno Walter: A World Elsewhere Erik Ryding, Rebecca Pechefsky
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    Henry-Louis de La Grange -Gustav Mahler: Volume 3. Vienna: Triumph and Disillusion (1904-1907) 019315160X 1995 "DURING the long weeks of preparation for the first Viennese performance of Pfitzner's opera Die Rose vom Liebesgarten, two one-act comic operas, both based upon rococo librettos, were premiered at the Hofoper by Mahler. The first, Das War Ich... Die Abreise..."
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