Der arme Heinrich
Music by Hans Pfitzner · premiered 1895
Der arme Heinrich is a German-language opera in three acts by Hans Pfitzner to a libretto by James Grun. The premiere was at the Mainz Municipal Theatre on 2 April 1895. The opera is based on Hartmann von Aue's 12th-century narrative poem Der arme Heinrich.
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About the Composer
Hans Erich Pfitzner (5 May 1869 – 22 May 1949) was a German composer, conductor and polemicist who was a self-described anti-modernist. His best known work is the post-Romantic opera Palestrina (1917), very loosely based on the life of the sixteenth-century composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina and his Missa Papae Marcelli.
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Other Operas by Hans Pfitzner
- Die Rose vom Liebesgarten (1900)
- Das Christ-Elflein (1906)
- Das Herz (1930)