Josephs Legende
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Script error: No such module "Lang". (The Legend of Joseph), Op. 63, is a ballet in one act for the Ballets Russes based on the story of Joseph and Potiphar's wife, with a libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Harry von Kessler and music by Richard Strauss. Composed from 1912 to 1914, it premiered at the Paris Opera on 14 May 1914.[1]
Composition
Hugo von Hofmannsthal first proposed Script error: No such module "Lang". to Strauss as a Script error: No such module "Lang". (interim work) between Ariadne auf Naxos and Die Frau ohne Schatten. Composition began in June 1912, but in a letter of 11 September Strauss confided that the work was not progressing as quickly as he expected: "The chaste Joseph himself isn't at all up my street, and if a thing bores me I find it difficult to set it to music. This God-seeker Joseph – he's going to be a hell of an effort!"[2][3]
Strauss drew on earlier sketches for his abandoned ballet Die Insel Kythere and wrote for an outsized orchestra with exotic instrumental colouring including four harps, large and small cymbals, four pairs of castanets, heckelphone, and a contrabass clarinet.[4]
Instrumentation
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Performance history
With Diaghilev as impresario, Nijinsky as choreographer and creator of the title role – replaced after his marriage and fall from grace by Fokine and Massine – costumes by Léon Bakst and Alexandre Benois, scenic design after Veronese by Josep Maria Sert, and Strauss conducting the premiere, the initial run lasted seven performances.
This was shortly followed by a further seven in London in June conducted by Richard Strauss (UK premiere 23 June) and Sir Thomas Beecham, who had loaned the money for the commission to Diaghilev.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.[5] With the looming war, Strauss never received his fee of 6,000 francs.[6]
Later choreographers included George Balanchine, Antony Tudor, and John Neumeier, but none of their versions was considered more successful.[7]
Symphonic fragment
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Recordings
Audio
- Staatskapelle Dresden, conducted by Giuseppe Sinopoli (Deutsche Grammophon)[8]
- Budapest Festival Orchestra, conducted by Iván Fischer (Channel Classics Records)[9]
- The first complete recording of the work was performed in 1987 by the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Hiroshi Wakasugi[10]
Video
- 1977: Judith Jamison (Potiphar's wife), Kevin Haigen (Joseph), Karl Musil (The angel), Franz Wilhelm (Potiphar), and members of the Vienna State Ballet. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic, conducted by Heinrich Hollreiser; choreography and direction by John Neumeier; scenery and costumes by Ernst Fuchs; after a production by the Vienna State Opera. Studio production, filmed by Unitel, 1977.[11]
See also
References
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- ^ Script error: No such module "template wrapper". Template:Grove Music subscription (subscription required).
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.A Working Friendship: The Correspondence between Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Translated by Hanns Hammelmann; Ewald Osers. Random House. 1961. p. 142.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Heisler, Wayne (2009). The Ballet Collaborations of Richard Strauss. University of Rochester Press. pp. 46, 63f.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Del Mar, Norman (2009) [1969]. Richard Strauss: A Critical Commentary on His Life and Works II. Faber & Faber. pp. 133, 144–145.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Lesnig, Günther (1996). "75 Jahre seit der 'Deutschen Uraufführung' von Josephs Legende". Richard Strauss-Blätter (in Deutsch). 36. Hollitzer Verlag: 3–51. doi:10.2307/j.ctvg8p316.3. JSTOR j.ctvg8p316.3.Template:Page range too broad
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Kennedy, Michael (2006). Richard Strauss: Man, Musician, Enigma. Cambridge University Press. p. 208.
- ^ Michael Oliver, Review of "The Unknown Richard Strauss, Volume 13" (CD), Gramophone, December 2001, p. 63.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Greenfield, Edward (14 July 2000). "The man who dared to monkey with Beethoven". The Guardian. Retrieved 31 January 2012.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Ashley, Tim (13 April 2007). "Strauss: Josephslegende; Budapest Festival Orchestra/Fischer". The Guardian. Retrieved 31 January 2012.
- ^ Josephs Legende, Op. 63, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Hiroshi Wakasugi. Nippon Columbia, 1988
- ^ Josephs Legende (1977), Naxos Video Library.
External links
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