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Chapter 6 - The Other Librettists

from Part I - Family, Friends, and Collaborators

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 October 2020

Morten Kristiansen
Affiliation:
Xavier University, Cincinnati
Joseph E. Jones
Affiliation:
Texas A&M University-Kingsville
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Hofmannsthal’s death in 1929 left Strauss in a quandary. The will to compose was undiminished, and a replacement of similar caliber was difficult to find. Over the ensuing twenty years, Strauss enlisted the services of three further librettists. First was the celebrated Jewish writer Stefan Zweig, who supplied the text for Die schweigsame Frau. After Zweig exiled himself from his Austria in 1936, the distraught composer turned to the Viennese theater historian Joseph Gregor as collaborator on Friedenstag, Daphne, and Die Liebe der Danae. Last was Clemens Krauss, whom Strauss entrusted with the libretto of Capriccio, Strauss’s last opera. Decades earlier, Strauss himself wrote the text for his first music drama, Guntram, but it was “song-and-dance-man” Ernst von Wolzogen (Feuersnot) whose racy libretto served to loosen the Wagnerian chains that bound the composer in Guntram and pointed Strauss in a direction that led the Hofmannsthalian masterpieces of the next three decades.

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