Ottone Schanzer
Ottone Schanzer (Vienna, 18 April 1877 - Rome, 2 February 1956) was an Austrian man of letters and Libretto, librettist naturalised Italian. A ministerial official of the Kingdom of Italy, he is remembered for his translations from German into Italian of the librettos of operas by Richard Strauss. Life Ottone Schanzer was born in Vienna on 18 April 1877, the son of Ludwig Schanzer (1832–1886), a lawyer by profession, and Amalia Pauline Grünberg (1845–1918), a pianist and pupil of Franz Liszt. The two married in 1863 and from their union were born Carlo Schanzer, Carlo (1865–1953), Roberto (1872–1954), Alice (1873–1936) and finally Otto. The family lived in Vienna until 1879 and later moved to Italy, first to Milan and shortly afterwards definitively to Rome. Ludwig and Amalia got to know each other in the Habsburg capital, where the Grünberg family, belonging to the middle-class bourgeoisie, was well known in Viennese society at the time. In fact, the Grünbergs were ...
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