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Der Kaiser von Atlantis, oder, Die Tod-Verweigerung : Spiel in einem Akt von Peter Kien : Faksimile der Quellen / Viktor Ullmann ; herausgegeben von Heidy Zimmermann = The emperor of Atlantis, or, The refusal of death : play in one act by Peter Kien : facsimile of the sources / Viktor Ullmann ; edited by Heidy Zimmermann.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library M2 .D62 Bd.60
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- Format:
- Musical score
- Author/Creator:
- Ullmann, Viktor, composer.
- Series:
- Documenta musicologica. Handschriften-Faksimiles ; 2. Reihe, 60.
- Documenta Musicologica. Zweite Reihe, Handschriften-Faksimiles ; Band LX
- Standardized Title:
- Kaiser von Atlantis
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Operas--Scores.
- Operas.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Drama.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- Music--Manuscripts--Facsimiles.
- Music.
- Librettos--Manuscripts--Facsimiles.
- Librettos.
- Ullmann, Viktor--Manuscripts--Facsimiles.
- Ullmann, Viktor.
- Operas--Librettos.
- Genre:
- Operas.
- Art music.
- Librettos.
- Scores.
- Facsimiles.
- Physical Description:
- 1 score (295 pages) : facsimiles ; 40 cm.
- Other Title:
- Tod-Verweigerung
- Emperor of Atlantis
- Refusal of death
- Place of Publication:
- [Basel, Switzerland] : Eine Publikation der Paul Sacher Stiftung ; Kassel, Germany : Bärenreiter, 2025.
- Language Note:
- German words.
- Staff notation.
- Summary:
- "This parable is a harrowing document of its time, and has lost none of its relevance today. Faced with the tyrant Overall's killing machine, Death goes on strike: His service to humankind will only be resumed when the ruler has abdicated. The one-act opera "The Emperor of Atlantis" was written and rehearsed in 1943-44 in the Theresienstadt ghetto camp, but was not performed. The composer and librettist were both murdered in Auschwitz in the fall of 1944, but the documents related to the piece miraculously survived. Since its premiere in Amsterdam in 1975, "The Emperor of Atlantis" has been staged in numerous productions worldwide and is firmly established in the repertoire.The facsimile makes the surviving sources available in a printed reproduction of the highest quality: not just Viktor Ullmann's fair copy of the score, showing numerous traces of the composer's working and revision, but also Peter Kien's manuscript libretto, together with the copy typed on data sheets by female Jewish deportees and Death's part book. Five essays discuss the history of the work's creation and editing, musicological and stylistic questions, and also its reception over the past fifty years."--Publisher's description.
- Contents:
- Essays: Zur Entstehung und zu den Quellen der Oper von Viktor Ullmann und Peter Kien = On the origin and sources of Viktor Ullmann's and Peter Kien's opera / Heidy Zimmermann
- Zur Editionsgeschichte : die Quellenlage im Spannungsfeld editorischer Konzepte = The editorial history : the sources in tension between editorial conceptions / Andreas Krause
- Interpretationsansätze zum Kaiser von Atlantis : motivisch-harmonische und philologische Beobachtungen = Approaches to an interpretation of Der Kaiser von Atlantis : motifs, melodies, harmony / Ingo Schultz
- Zitat und stilistische Allusion im Kaiser von Atlantis = Quotation and stylistic allusion in Der Kaiser von Atlantis / John Gabriel
- Geschichte inszenieren, Erinnerung erschaffen : zur Rezeptionsgeschichte = Staging history, creating memory : an overview of the reception history / Amy Lynn Wlodarski.
- Notes:
- Composed 1943/1944 in Theresienstadt.
- Includes manuscript libretto and typescript libretto in facsimile; preface, essays, list of sources, synopsis of versions, and synopsis of register sheets in German and English.
- Contains:
- Container of: Ullmann, Viktor. Kaiser von Atlantis (Libretto).
- ISBN:
- 3761823509
- 9783761823507
- OCLC:
- 1559696474
- Publisher Number:
- 9783761823507
- BVK02350 Bärenreiter
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