Die Rose vom Liebesgarten explained
| Die Rose vom Liebesgarten |
| Composer: | Hans Pfitzner |
| Image Upright: | 0.7 |
| Librettist: | James Grun |
| Language: | German |
| Based On: | Hans Thoma's painting Der Wächter vor dem Liebesgarten |
| Premiere Location: | Elberfeld |
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.
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]
Notes and References
- 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..."
- IMSLP.
- https://books.google.com/books?id=eFwzgkxoI30C&pg=PA18 Bruno Walter: A World Elsewhere Erik Ryding, Rebecca Pechefsky
- 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..."
