Jakob Lenz (opera)
1979 opera by Wolfgang Rihm / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jakob Lenz is a one-act chamber opera by Wolfgang Rihm, written 1977–78 to a libretto by Michael Fröhling after Georg Büchner's 1836 novella Lenz which in turn is based on an incident in the life of the German poet Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz (1751–1792).[1] Rihm dedicated the opera to his teacher, Eugen Werner Velte [de].[2]
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Jakob Lenz | |
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Chamber opera by Wolfgang Rihm | |
Librettist | Michael Fröhling |
Language | German |
Based on | Lenz (1836) by Georg Büchner |
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Rihm received for Jakob Lenz the Beethoven Prize of the city of Bonn in 1980.[3]