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LORTZING, GUSTAV ALBERT (18o1-1851)

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LORTZING, GUSTAV See also:ALBERT (18o1-1851) , See also:German composer, was See also:born at See also:Berlin on the 23rd of See also:October 18or. Both his parents were actors, and when he was nineteen the son began to See also:play youthful See also:lover at the theatres of See also:Dusseldorf and Aachen, sometimes also singing in small See also:tenor or baritone parts. His first See also:opera See also:Ali Pascha von Jannina appeared in 1824, but his fame as a musician rests chiefly upon the two operas Der Wildschiitz (1842) and Czar and See also:Zimmermann (1837). The latter, although now regarded as one of the masterpieces of German comic opera, was received with little See also:enthusiasm by the public of See also:Leipzig. Subsequent performance in Berlin, however, provoked such a See also:tempest of See also:applause that the opera was soon placed on all the stages of See also:Germany. It was translated into See also:English, See also:French, See also:Swedish, Danish, Dutch, Bohemian, Hungarian and See also:Russian. Der Wildschiitz was based on a See also:comedy of See also:Kotzebue, and was a See also:satire on the unintelligent and exaggerated admiration for the highest beauty in See also:art expressed by the See also:bourgeois gentilhomme. Of his other operas it is only necessary to See also:note Der See also:Pole and sein See also:Kind, produced shortly after the See also:Polish insurrection of 1831, and Undine (1845). Lortzing died at Berlin on the 21st of See also:January 1851.

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