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Description

The first edition of the musical works of E.T.A. Hoffmann, begun in the 1920s, foundered as a result of adverse economical conditions and because it was an enterprise ahead of its time. In the intervening years the E.T.A. Hoffmann specialist Friedrich Schnapp has rediscovered several works previously unknown or believed lost; his close collaborator Gerhard Allroggen documented the musical œuvre of Hoffmann bibliographically in a ‚Chronological Thematical Catalogue‘ . The present edition is based on this preparatory research and presents more than half of E.T.A. Hoffmann‘s musical works in a critical edition of 12 volumes.
Most of the works omitted consist of his numerous stage compositions. But apart from his main dramatic work ‚Undine‘- published here for the first time in its original form - this section also contains ‚Die lustigen Musikanten‘ (a particularly successful setting of Brentano‘s musical comedy), ‚Liebe und Eifersucht‘ and his first work ‚Die Maske‘ (1799), the only surviving large-scale dramatic work where Hoffmann himself adapted the libretto. The incidental music for Zacharias Werner’s ‚Kreuz an der Ostsee‘ is interesting because of the notoriety achieved by the play. ‚Arlequin‘ is representative of Hoffmann‘s ballet music. Hoffmann‘s work in other genres, including sacred music, orchestral works, piano and chamber music, choral pieces, arias and lieder, are all published complete. In contrast to the stage works, they are much smaller, and their general importance as well as their use for practical music making are increasingly recognized. Each music volume contains a preface with the genesis and description of each work as well as a Critical Commentary listing the sources and necessary textual emendations.

Content

Vorwort
Zacharias Werners romantisches Trauerspiel Das Kreuz an der Ostsee
E.T.A. Hoffmanns Musik zu Werners Trauerspiel
E.T.A. Hoffmanns Balletmusik Arlequin
Zacharias Werners Trauerspiel 'Das Kreuz an der Ostsee' mit der Bühnenmusik von E.T.A. Hoffmann
Historischer Vorbericht
Personen / [Orchesterbesetzung]
Prolog
Overtura
Erster Aufzug
[No. 1. Chor] "Auf den Stürmen, in den Wellen"
No. 2. Chor der Preußen beim Mahl
No. 3. Schlachtgesang der Preußen
Zweiter Aufzug
Erste Scene
Zweite Scene
[No. 4.] Simphonie welche den zweiten und dritten Ackt verbindet
Dritter Aufzug
Erste Scene
[No. 5. Zur ersten Scene, mit Priesterchor]
[No. 6.] Marsch der Ordensritter
Zweite Scene
Dritte Scene [mit Epilog des Spielmanns]
[No. 7.] Bei dem Schlusse des Epilogs
Anhang: Notenbeilage zm Erstdruck 1806 von Werners Tragödie No. 2. Chor der Preußen beim Mahl (Klavierauszug)
Polnisches Volkslied (Das ächte Original des Volksliedes Akt III Scene 2, Geh nicht nach dem Städtchen u.s.w.)
Ballettmusik 'Arlequin'
1. Furien Tanz
2. Andante
3. Maestoso
4. Allegro
5. Andante
6. Adagio ma non troppo
7. Allegretto
8. Allegro
9. Allegro moderato
10. Allegretto
11. Allegro
12. Allegro moderato
13. Allegro moderato
14. Allegretto
15. Allegretto
16. Allegro molto
17. Andante
18. Moderato
19. Moderato
20. Allegretto
Kritischer Bericht
Verzeichnis der Abkürzungen und Zitierweise bei den Einzelanmerkungen
Zur Edition der Musik
'Das Kreuz an der Ostsee'
Die Quellen
Allgemeines zur vorliegenden Ausgabe
Zur Ausgabe des Dramentextes
Einzelanmerkungen
'Arlequin'
Die Quelle
Allgemeines
Einzelanmerkungen

Other editions

ETAH 112-10 = Vol. 12a