Die Rose vom Liebesgarten
Music by Hans Pfitzner · libretto by James Grun · premiered 1900 · at Elberfeld
Die Rose vom Liebesgarten (The Rose from the Garden of Love) is a 1900 opera by Hans Pfitzner to a libretto by James Grun, one of Pfitzner's fellow students at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt, which had been prompted by an 1890 painting by Hans Thoma, Der Wächter vor dem Liebesgarten (The Guardian Before the Garden of Love). The first act was first premiered in concert in March 1900 where it was poorly received between two pieces by Richard Strauss. The premiere on 9 November 1901 in Elberfeld was better received, followed by performances in Mannheim, Bremen, Munich and Hamburg. The opera was published in 1901 and received its first truly successful staging by Gustav Mahler in Vienna in 1905.
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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
- Der arme Heinrich (1895)
- Das Christ-Elflein (1906)
- Das Herz (1930)