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Composers & Music / Christmas operas
Friday 24 May 2013, 10:19
I'm trying to make a list of operas which have something to do with Christmas. There are two categories of such works: 1) operas which were first staged/performed during the Christmas days (december 8th-26th) - also, operas composed for Christmas, and 2) operas whose action is set or partially set in a Christmas time.
The most famous of them are Haensel und Gretel (1) and La bohème (2), but there are a lot of not-so-wll know works to be listed, too.

Of the first category I know at the moment only three works, two by Humperdinck: Haensel und Gretel (December 23th), Die sieben Geislein (December 19th), and one by Pfitzner: Das Christ-Elflein (December 11th).

Of the second category I know a bit more titles: Puccini's La bohème; Alfano's Resurrezione; Zandonai's Il grillo del focolare and I cavalieri di Ekebù;  Hermann's Wuthering Heights, Pfitzner's-Das Christ-Elflein, and, I suppose, Goldmark's Das Heimchem am Herd. I cannot remember at the moment of Respighi's Marie Victoire is partially set in a christmas time, too.

Do you know other titles?
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Composers & Music / Hermann Noetzel (1880-1951)
Sunday 19 May 2013, 10:11
Hi all,

I bought the piano score of Hermann Noetzel's "Meister Guido" because I already knew the libretto and I found the subject intriguing. That opera was first performed 1918 in Karlsuhe, and the orchestral score is in the catalog of the Universal Edition.  There's only another listed work of Noetzel, "Pierrots Sommersnacht" (1921). No trace of what the composer could have done before 1918 or after 1921.
I'm not yet sure about the quality of his music, what I played till yet was very repetitive, diatonic and light - anyway, with a length of 160 minutes, a not small orchestra, 6 guitars off stage and a string quartet on the stage that works seems to be pretty ambitious.
Does anyone here knew something about this composer?