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Engelbert Humperdinck still features in the repertoire thanks to his famous fairytale opera 'Hansel and Gretel'. Of his other operas, the only one still recognized is 'Königskinder'. Realistic operas dominated the European stage at the turn of the 19th century, as the Romantic aura faded. This makes it all the more remarkable that alongside this Naturalism a childlike fairytale opera has survived until today, remaining popular despite changing styles. His other works, including incidental music for several plays by Shakespeare, Maurice Maeterlinck and Aristophanes, several orchestral works including a pantomime 'Das Wunder' and a 'Moorish Rhapsody', are hardly ever performed today. He also left two choral ballades, choruses, piano pieces and lieder. Amateurs still enjoy playing his only completed string quartet in C, not published until 1937. Humperdinck was born on 1st September 1854 in Siegburg, Rhineland. He first studied with Ferdinand Hiller at the Cologne Conservatoire, then with Franz Lachner and Joseph Rheinberger in Munich. Winning the 'Mendelssohn Prize' enabled him to travel to Italy, where he met Richard Wagner, who invited him to Bayreuth to assist him with the production of 'Parsifal'. After short stays in Cologne and Paris, from 1885 to 1897 he taught composition in Barcelona. In 1888 he worked as an editor. From 1890 he taught at the Hoch Conservatoire in Frankfurt/Main. In 1900 he was given the masterclass for composition at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin. Humperdinck died on 27th September 1921 in Neustrelitz. Aside from his one completed quartet in C major, he wrote repeatedly for this combination. His estate contains manuscripts which show him struggling with four-part string writing. One of them is the present expansive first movement in e minor, dated 1873; both autograph score and parts - with their corrections - show how intensively he sought to compress his material. This gem, with its often fresco-like sequences, reminds one of Bruckner. This movement is repertoire! A complete Allegro in c minor, has also survived in the autograph, as well as a Menuet in E flat which 'aptly' (?) calls for a piano in the main section (Siegburg, 1872). The torso of a Scherzo also exists, as well as an 'Andante' the composer intended for a 'd minor quartet'.
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212020
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