Faust (Spohr)
1816 opera by Louis Spohr / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Faust is an opera by the German composer Louis Spohr. The libretto, by Joseph Karl Bernard, is based on the legend of Faust; it is not influenced by Goethe's Faust, though Faust, Part One had been published in 1808. Instead, Bernard's libretto draws mainly on Faust plays and poems by Friedrich Maximilian Klinger and Heinrich von Kleist.[1] Spohr's Faust is an important work in the history of German Romantic opera.
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Opera by Louis Spohr | |
Librettist | Joseph Karl Bernard |
Language | German |
Based on | legend of Faust |
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