Die glückliche Hand

work by Schoenberg

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history of opera

  • Il trovatore
    In opera: Later opera in Germany and Austria

    …the one-act “drama with music” Die glückliche Hand (1924; “The Hand of Fate,” his own libretto)—are atonal, thickly Romantic, even Expressionistic (intentionally distorted, so as to express intense and often exaggerated or disquieting emotions). These early works occasionally use Sprechstimme, a variety of vocalization between speech and song that uses…

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