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Egon Wellesz: An Opera Composer in 1920s Vienna

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 November 2009

Philip Ward
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The music of Egon Wellesz, largely forgotten since his death in 1974, is slowly being rediscovered. The last three years have seen the premiere of his Third Symphony in Vienna (reviewed in Tempo 213), a concert devoted to his chamber music at the Wigmore Hall, and several new recordings, among them a forthcoming release from Orfeo which will mark the first appearance on CD of any of his stage works, the 1931 opera Die Bakchantinnen.

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Research Article
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Tempo , Issue 219 , January 2002 , pp. 22 - 28
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2002

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1 Wellesz's stage works, in order, are Das Wunder de Diana, op. 18 (ballet, scenario by Béla Balàsz) fp Mannheim 1924; Die Prinzessin Gimara, op.27 (opera, libretto Jakob Wassermann), fp Hanover 1921; Persisches Ballelt, op.30 (choreography Ellen Tels), fp Donaueschingen 1924; Achilles auf Skyros, op.33 (ballet, scenario by Hormannsthal), fp Stuttgart 1926; Alkestis, op.35 (opera, libretto Hofmannsthal, after Euripides), fpMannheim 1924; Die Nachtlidien, op.37 ballet, choreography Max Terpis), fp Berlin 1924; Die Opferung des Gefangenen, op.40 (opera, libretto Eduard Stucken, after Aztec legend), fp Cologne 1926; Scherz, List und Rache, op.41 (opera after Goethe), fp Stuttgart 1928; Die Bakchantinnen, op.44 (opera, libretto Wellesz, after Euripides/Hofrnannsthal), fp Vienna 1931; Incognita, op.69 (opera, libretto Elizabeth Mackenzie, after Congreve), fp Oxford 1951.