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Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 18:53:02 +0100 (BST)
Subject: For moderation - Re: Unattributed quotations in Wilhelm Raabe
From: Geoffrey Chew <[log in to unmask]>
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On Tue, 1 Sep 1998, Bill Webster wrote:
> I am trying to fill some gaps in the notes for an edition of Wilhelm
> > Raabe's letters and would be grateful for any information on the
> > following quotations/modified quotations/allusions/proverbial
> > sayings/plays/operettas/people. Even an "it might have something
> > to do with ..." would be welcome. Many thanks in advance
> > Die schoene Galathee
operetta by Franz von Suppe to a libretto by "Poly Henrion" (L. Kohl con
Kohlenegg), 1st perf 1865
> > Die beiden Schuetzen
comic opera by Albert Lortzing after G. Cords "Die beiden Grenadiere",
1st perf 1835
> > Die Wallfahrt anch Ploermel(?)
subtitle of Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera-comique Dinorah ("oder die Wallfahrt
nach Ploermel"), to a libretto by J. Barbier and M. Carre, after Carre's
"Les chercheurs de tresor", 1st perf 1859
> > Die Donna Anna (role in a play/opera?)
presumably the famous role in Don Giovanni?
> > Julius Klaiber's publications on the Maerchen.
Klaiber, Julius, Das Maerchen und die kindliche Phantasie (Stuttgart, S.
G. Liesching, 1866)
> > Karl August Kortum (author of the "Jobsiade")
actually Karl Arnold Kortum, 1745-1824
> > Mueller (author of "Geschichte der neuesten Zeit", 1860s)
? Wilhelm Mueller, 1820-1892, Politische Geschichte der neuesten Zeit,
1816-1875: mit besonderer Beruecksichtigung Deutschlands, 3. verb. und
verm. Aufl., Stuttgart: Paul Neff, 1875
So far as it goes...
Best wishes
Geoffrey Chew
Music Department, Royal Holloway College (University of London)
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