Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, and critic. His works include plays, poetry, literature, and aesthetic criticism, as well as treatises on botany, anatomy, and colour. He is widely regarded as the greatest and most influential writer in the German language, and his work has had a profound and wide-ranging influence on Western literary, political, and philosophical thought from the late 18th century to the present day. Goethe took up residence in Weimar in November 1775 following the success of his first novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774). He was ennobled by the Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Karl August, in 1782. Goethe was an early participant in the Sturm und Drang literary movement. During his first ten years in Weimar, Goethe became a member of the Duke's privy council (1776–1785), sat on the war and highway commissions, oversaw the reopening of silver mines in nearby Ilmenau, and implemented a series of administrative reforms at the University of Jena. He also contributed to the planning of Weimar's botanical park and the rebuilding of its Ducal Palace. Goethe's first major scientific work, the Metamorphosis of Plants, was published after he returned from a 1788 tour of Italy. In 1791 he was made managing director of the theatre at Weimar, and in 1794 he began a friendship with the dramatist, historian, and philosopher Friedrich Schiller, whose plays he premiered until Schiller's death in 1805. During this period Goethe published his second novel, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship; the verse epic Hermann and Dorothea, and, in 1808, the first part of his most celebrated drama, Faust. His conversations and various shared undertakings throughout the 1790s with Schiller, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Johann Gottfried Herder, Alexander von Humboldt, Wilhelm von Humboldt, and August and Friedrich Schlegel have come to be collectively termed Weimar Classicism. The German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer named Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship one of the four greatest novels ever written, while the American philosopher and essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson selected Goethe as one of six "representative men" in his work of the same name (along with Plato, Emanuel Swedenborg, Montaigne, Napoleon, and Shakespeare). Goethe's comments and observations form the basis of several biographical works, notably Johann Peter Eckermann's Conversations with Goethe (1836). His poems were set to music by many composers including Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Berlioz, Liszt, Wagner, and Mahler. |
Birth and Death Data: Born August 28, 1749 (Frankfurt am Main), Died March 22, 1832 (Weimar)
Date Range of DAHR Recordings: 1903 - 1947
Roles Represented in DAHR: author
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Recordings (Results 26-46 of 46 records)
Company | Matrix No. | Size | First Recording Date | Title | Primary Performer | Description | Role | Audio |
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Columbia | 1159 | 10-in. | ca. 1903 | Das Heidenröslein | Emil Muench | Tenor vocal solo, with piano | author | |
Columbia | 38365 | 10-in. | 10/24/1912 | Heidenröslein | Emmy Singer | Female vocal solo, with orchestra | author | |
Columbia | 38601 | 10-in. | 1/27/1913 | Heidenröslein | New York Liederkranz | Male vocal chorus, unaccompanied | author | |
Columbia | 30483 | 12-in. | ca. Jan.-Nov. 12, 1910 | Damon | Lillian Nordica | Soprano vocal solo, with piano | author | |
Columbia | 30658 | 12-in. | ca. 1911-1915 | The Erlkönig | Lillian Nordica | Soprano vocal solo | author | |
Columbia | 30662 | 12-in. | 2/3/1911 | Die Bekehrte | Lillian Nordica | Soprano vocal solo | author | |
Columbia | 36355 | 12-in. | 4/8/1912 | Hedge roses | David Scull Bispham | Baritone vocal solo, with orchestra | author | |
Columbia | W98498 | 12-in. | 3/19/1928 | Erlkönig | Sophie Braslau | Contralto vocal solo, with piano | author | |
Columbia | W98554 | 12-in. | 6/21/1928 | Song of the flea | Alexander J. Kisselburgh | Baritone vocal solo, with orchestra | author | |
Columbia | W108781 | 10-in. | 2/7/1928 | Der Erlkönig | Alexander Moissi | Recitation | author | |
Columbia | W205790 | 12-in. | 2/7/1928 | Osterglocken | Alexander Moissi | Monologue, with vocal ensemble | author | |
Brunswick | 12671 | 10-in. | 3/10/1924 | Canzonetta | Elisabeth Rethberg | Soprano vocal solo, with orchestra | author | |
Brunswick | 12865-12866 | 10-in. | 4/14/1924 | Canzonetta | Elisabeth Rethberg | Soprano vocal solo, with orchestra | author | |
Brunswick | E26470-E26471 | 10-in. | 2/11/1928 | Diabelska piesn o pchle | Adam Didur | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | author | |
Edison | 1381 | 10-in. | Feb. 1913 | Gretchen am Spinnrade | Aino Ackté | Soprano vocal solo, with orchestra | author | |
Edison | 10284 | 10-in. | 3/30/1925 | Haidenröslein | Hilda Ebert ; Emilie Ellerman | Female vocal duet | author | |
Edison | 19201 | 10-in. | 5/17/1929 | Wiegenlied | Elsbeth Nolte | Mezzo-soprano vocal solo, with violin and piano | author | |
Edison | N-905 | 10-in. | 5/17/1929 | Wiegenlied | Elsbeth Nolte | Mezzo-soprano vocal solo, with violin and piano | author | |
Gramophone | 0RA2972 | 10-in. | 5/23/1938 | Das Heidenroslein | Meistersextett | Male vocal ensemble, with piano | author | |
Gramophone | 0EA6043 | 10-in. | 12/29/1937 | Das Veilchen | Ria Ginster ; Gerald Moore | Soprano vocal solo, with piano | author | |
Gramophone | Bb21030 | 10-in. | 12/3/1930 | Anakreons Grab | John McCormack ; Edwin Schneider | Tenor vocal solo, with piano | author |
Citation
Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von," accessed April 24, 2024, https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/102274.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved April 24, 2024, from https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/102274.
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