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Spöksonaten
''The Ghost Sonata'' () is a play in three acts by the Swedish playwright August Strindberg. Written in 1907, it was first produced at Strindberg's Intimate Theatre in Stockholm on 21 January 1908. Since then, it has been staged by such notable directors as Max Reinhardt, Olof Molander, Roger Blin, and Ingmar Bergman. Bergman directed it four times: in 1941, 1954, 1973, and 2000. Strindberg took the title from Piano Sonata No. 17 (Beethoven), Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor, which he called 'The Gespenster Sonata', and also Piano Trio No. 5 (Beethoven), Piano Trio No. 5 in D major, known as the 'Ghost Trio'. ''The Ghost Sonata'' is a key text in the development of modernist drama and a vivid example of a chamber play. In it, Strindberg creates a world in which ghosts walk in bright daylight, a beautiful woman is transformed into a mummy and lives in the closet, and the household cook sucks all the nourishment out of the food before she serves it to her masters. Plot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plays By August Strindberg
This is a list of August Strindberg's written works. Bibliography Drama Posthumous * ''The growth of a soul'', translated by Claud Field, 1913 * ''På gott och ont'' (''Of Good and Evil''), 1914 * ''Genom öknar till arvland; eller, Moses'' (''Through the Wilderness to the Promised Land; or, Moses'') (''Through Deserts to Ancestral Lands ''), twenty-one tableaux, 1918 * ''Hellas; eller, Sokrates'' (''Hellas; or, Socrates'') (''Hellas ''), nineteen tableaux, 1918 * ''Lammet och vilddjuret; eller, Kristus'' (''The Lamb and the Wild Beast; or, Christ'') (''The Lamb and the Beast ''), fifteen tableaux, 1918 * ''Toten-Insel'' (''Isle of the Dead''), one scene, 1918 * ''Han och hon: En själs utvecklingshistoria'' (''He and She: A soul's development history''), 1919 * ''Efterspelet'' (''Epilogue''), 1920 * ''Strindbergs brev till Harriet Bosse'': Natur & Kultur, 1932 * ''August Strindbergs och Ola Hanssons brevvåxling'', 1938 * ''Åttitalsnoveller'' (''Stories of the eighties''), 1959 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
August Strindberg
Johan August Strindberg (; ; 22 January 184914 May 1912) was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist, and painter.Lane (1998), 1040. A prolific writer who often drew directly on his personal experience, Strindberg wrote more than 60 plays and more than 30 works of fiction, autobiography, history, cultural analysis, and politics during his career, which spanned four decades. A bold experimenter and iconoclast throughout his life, he explored a wide range of dramatic methods and purposes, from naturalistic tragedy, monodrama, and historical plays to his anticipations of expressionist and surrealist dramatic techniques. From his earliest work, Strindberg developed innovative forms of dramatic action, language, and visual composition. He is considered the "father" of modern Swedish literature and his '' The Red Room'' (1879) has frequently been described as the first modern Swedish novel. In Sweden, Strindberg is known as an essayist, painter, poet, and especially noveli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julius Weismann
Julius Weismann (26 December 1879 – 22 December 1950) was a German pianist, conductor, and composer.See LCCN. Biography Weismann was born in Freiburg im Breisgau. He studied with Josef Rheinberger and Ludwig Thuille. As a composer, he left over 150 opus numbers and numerous works without opus number. His works include six operas, three symphonies, three piano concertos, four violin concertos, eleven string quartets (two of these recently recorded in string orchestra arrangement on a cpo recording), piano music, chamber works (including a violin sonata) and about 200 lieder. Weismann's six operas were: * ''Schwanenweiß'' (1920, premiered 1923), libretto after August Strindberg * ''Ein Traumspiel'' (1924, premiered 1925), libretto after A. Strindberg * ''Leonce und Lena'' (1924, premiered 1925), after a text by Georg Büchner * ''Regina del Lago'' (1926, premiered 1928), libretto by Erica Stuber after a text by Walter Calé * ''Die Gespenstersonate'' ( The Ghost Sonata), libr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stockholm In Fiction
Stockholm (; ) is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, most populous city of Sweden, as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in the Nordic countries. Approximately 1 million people live in the Stockholm Municipality, municipality, with 1.6 million in the Stockholm urban area, urban area, and 2.5 million in the Metropolitan Stockholm, metropolitan area. The city stretches across fourteen islands where Mälaren, Lake Mälaren flows into the Baltic Sea. Outside the city to the east, and along the coast, is the island chain of the Stockholm archipelago. The area has been settled since the Stone Age, in the 6th millennium BC, and was founded as a city in 1252 by Swedish statesman Birger Jarl. The city serves as the county seat of Stockholm County. Stockholm is the cultural, media, political, and economic centre of Sweden. The Stockholm region alone accounts for over a third of the country's Gros ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plays Set In Sweden
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1907 Plays
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Mary Sandbach
Mary Warburton Sandbach (born Mary Warburton Matthews; 25 April 1901 – 3 November 1990) was a British translator. She is noted for her translations of the Swedish writer August Strindberg. Life Sandbach was born in Edgbaston in 1901. Her parents were Miriam (born Warburton) and Arthur Daniel Mathews. Her father was a foundry owner who went bankrupt. She experimented with attending Edgbaston High School for Girls but she preferred to be home educated by her mother. She was not considered academic, unlike her sister, who went to attend Newnham College, Cambridge. Mary had no formal educational qualifications. In 1922 she began her interest in Scandinavia when she set out to be an au pair there. This was her second choice as her skill with the violin had failed to get her a place at the Royal School of Music. She was there for a year; in 1925 she returned, and spent four years in Sweden. She returned to Birmingham where she studied speech therapy and she volunteered to assist in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inferno (Strindberg Novel)
''Inferno'' is an autobiographical novel by August Strindberg. Written in French in 1896–97 at the height of Strindberg's troubles with both censors and women, the book is concerned with Strindberg's life both in and after he lived in Paris, and explores his various obsessions, including alchemy, occultism, and Swedenborgianism, and shows signs of paranoia and neuroticism. ''Inferno'' has often been cited as proof of Strindberg's own personal neuroses, such as a persecution complex, but evidence also suggests that Strindberg, although experiencing mild neurotic symptoms, both invented and exaggerated much of the material in the book for dramatic effect. Plot The narrator (ostensibly Strindberg, although his narrative variably coheres with and diverges from historical truth) spends most of the novel in Paris, isolated from his wife (Frida Uhl), children, and friends. He associates with a circle of Parisian artists and writers (including Paul Gauguin and Edvard Munch), but ofte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egil Törnqvist
Per Egil Törnqvist (19 December 1932, Uppsala – 9 March 2015, Amsterdam) was Professor of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Amsterdam and an academic literary critic. Earlier (1961) he was in charge of the drama division in the comparative literature program at Uppsala University."Drama Survey", by Bolingbroke Society/ref> From 1969 to 1997 he was professor of Scandinavian languages and literature at the University of Amsterdam. His daughter is artist Marit Törnqvist. Books *(1968) "Drama of Souls: Studies in O'Neill's Super-naturalistic Technique." *(1970) "Drama of Souls", , ''Yale University Press'' *(1982) "Strindbergian Drama" *(1991) "Transposing Drama: Studies In Representation", *(1993) "Filmdiktaren Ingmar Bergman" *(1995) "Ibsen: A Doll's House (Plays in Production)", , ''Cambridge University Press'' *(1999) "Ibsen, Strindberg and the Intimate Theater: Studies in TV Presentation" *(2003) "Bergman's Muses: Aesthetic Versatility in Film, Theatre, Televisi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aribert Reimann
Aribert Reimann (, 4 March 1936 – 13 March 2024) was a German composer, pianist, and accompanist, known especially for his literary operas. His version of Shakespeare's ''King Lear'', the opera '' Lear'', was written at the suggestion of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, who performed the title role. His opera ''Medea'' after Grillparzer's play premiered in 2010 at the Vienna State Opera. He was a professor of contemporary Lied (art song) in Hamburg and Berlin. In 2011, he was awarded the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize for his life's work. Life and career Reimann was born in Berlin on 4 March 1936. His father, , served as choirmaster at Berlin Cathedral; his mother was an oratorio singer and voice teacher. As a boy of age 10, he performed in a production of the school opera ('' Schuloper'') ''Der Jasager''. He studied at the Musikhochschule Berlin, composition and counterpoint with Boris Blacher and Ernst Pepping, and piano with Otto Rausch. During his studies, he worked as a répét ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Die Gespenstersonate
''Die Gespenstersonate'' is a 1984 German-language opera by Aribert Reimann to a libretto by the composer and Uwe Schendel after August Strindberg's play '' The Ghost Sonata''. Strindberg's play also inspired another opera, '' Die Gespenstersonate'' by Julius Weismann (1930). Premiere World premiere by the Deutsche Oper Berlin at the Hebbel Theater in Berlin with the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie and Ensemble Modern featured: * Der Alte – Hans Günther Nöcker * Die Mumie – Martha Mödl * Der Oberst – Horst Hiestermann * Der Student Arkenholz – David Knutson * Das Fräulein – Gudrun Sieber * Johansson – Donald Grobe Donald Roth Grobe (16 December 1929 – 1 April 1986) was an American lyric tenor who sang at the ''Deutsche Oper Berlin'' during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. He made his début in Chicago, in 1952, as Borsa in ''Rigoletto''. He sang at his first S ... * Bengtsson – William Dooley * Die Dunkle Dame – Barbara Scherler * Die Köchin – Kaja Borris A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
