Dafne
opera by Schütz
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history of German opera
- In opera: Early opera in Germany and Austria
…Schütz composed a setting of Dafne (now lost), the first known opera with a German text, and heard it played at Torgau in 1627, the active history of opera in Germany began with the Italian composers residing there. A remarkable Venetian composer-diplomatist-ecclesiastic, the Abbé Agostino Steffani, carried much of his…
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translation by Opitz
- In Martin Opitz
Rinuccini the libretto of Dafne, the first opera in German; he introduced the political novel (John Barclay’s Argenis) into Germany; and he edited (1638) the German version of Sir Philip Sidney’s prose romance Arcadia and the 11th-century poem Annolied. Opitz’s Opera Poetica appeared in 1646.
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