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Name: Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Birth Date: February 1, 1874
Death Date: July 15, 1929
Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria
Place of Death: Rodaun, Austria
Nationality: Austrian
Gender: Male
Occupations: writer, poet, dramatist, essayist

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Biography of Hugo von Hofmannsthal
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The Austrian poet, dramatist, and essayist Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874-1929) is best known for his opera librettos. He is also considered a master of German lyric poetry. Hugo von Hofmannsthal was born in Vienna and spent most of his life there. He...
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Biography of Hugo von Hofmannsthal
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What is perhaps most striking about Hugo von Hofmannsthal are contradictions that characterize his creative imagination. His poetic laboratory was filled with an ever-increasing multiplicity of images, themes, ideas, situations, and dramatis personae....
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Biography of Hugo von Hofmannsthal
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Hugo von Hofmannsthal is generally considered the most important Austrian writer of the early twentieth century; among German-speaking writers of this period only Thomas Mann and Franz Kafka have generated more commentary. At the same time,...


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Hugo von Hofmannsthal (February 1, 1874 – July 15, 1929), was an Austrian novelist, librettist, poet, dramatist, narrator, and...


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AUMLA : Journal of the Australasian Universities Modern Language Association
Hugo von Hofmannsthal: Selected Tales
11/01/2007: 460 words, approx. 2 pages
Hugo von Hofmannsthal: Selected Tales. Translated with introduction and notes by J. M. Q. Davies. London: Angel Books, 2007. This selection of seven short stories provides an excellent introduction to the early works of Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Hofmannsthal, whose symbolist style and cosmopolitan...
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The Modern Language Review
The Poetry of Hugo von Hofmannsthal and French Symbolism.(Book Review)
07/01/2002: 548 words, approx. 2 pages
The Poetry of Hugo von Hofmannsthal and French Symbolism. By ROBERT VILAIN. (Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs) Oxford: Clarendon Press. 2000. xi + 376 pp. 50 [pounds sterling]. The influence of French Symbolism on Hofmannsthal's poetry has been the subject of...
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AP News
'The Egyptian Helen' returns to the Met
3/17/2007: 726 words, approx. 2 pages
It was tough enough in antiquity to be a sorceress, let alone the planet's most beautiful woman. In the postmodern world, you have to compete for attention with directors, too.Strauss' "Die Aegyptische Helena" ("The Egyptian Helen") returned to the Metropolitan Opera on Thursday night for...
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Lyric Opera of Chicago's 'Doctor Atomic' begins with excitement but stalls in Act 2
12/17/2007: 1,054 words, approx. 4 pages
History hovers nearby at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, where John Adams' ambitious but uneven work about the creation of the atom bomb is being staged just a few miles from the site of the world's first controlled nuclear chain reaction."Doctor Atomic," which had its...
 


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