Violanta: Oper in Einem Akt von Hans Müller

KORNGOLD, Erich Wolfgang

Published by B. Schott's Söhne, Mainz and Leipzig, 1916

About this Item

First edition. Quarto. Vocal score. Rebound in black cloth, with front wrap mounted on front board. Small book label of collector Herbert Boyce Satcher on the front board, else near fine. Tipped to the page facing the first page of music is an Autograph Musical Quotation (approximately 6" x 10") Inscribed and Signed by Korngold in 1936. Korngold's second opera, written when the Austrian musical prodigy and composer was 19 years old (as a child he had been praised by Gustav Mahler, Artur Schnabel, and Richard Strauss). Korngold went to Hollywood in 1934 to adapt Mendelssohn's music for *A Midsummer Night's Dream*, and returned to score Michael Curtiz's *The Adventures of Robin Hood* (1938). Fortuitously, he arrived back in Hollywood just before the Nazis annexed Austria, and, being Jewish, decided to stay in America, where he spent the rest of his life. Korngold won an Academy Award for *Robin Hood* and it was the first of several films scored by him, directed by Curtiz, and starring Errol Flynn, including *The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex* (1939) and *The Sea Hawk* (1940). After WWII he returned to classical composition, though today he is generally considered, along with Max Steiner, the father of film music.

Seller Inventory # 314571

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Violanta: Oper in Einem Akt von Hans Müller
• Publisher: B. Schott's Söhne, Mainz and Leipzig
• Publication Date: 1916
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
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