Jump to content

Emma und Eginhard

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by AnomieBOT (talk | contribs) at 16:01, 15 November 2016 (Substing templates: {{ill}}. See User:AnomieBOT/docs/TemplateSubster for info.). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Emma und Eginhard, oder Die Last-tragende Liebe, TWV 21:25, is a German Singspiel in three acts by Georg Philipp Telemann performed in Hamburg at the Oper am Gänsemarkt in 1728. The librettist was Christoph Gottlieb Wend [de].[1]

The opera's overture is also played as Violin Concerto in A minor.

Edition

  • Georg Philipp Telemann: Die last-tragende Liebe or Emma und Eginhard, Urtext edition, ISMN 979-0006497942

Recordings

  • Selected arias: "Das Auge starrt, die Lippen beben"; "Erscheine bald du, Irrlicht meiner Sinne"; "Steckt Mars den Degen ein, so wetzt Cupido Pfeile" from Telemann, album by Nuria Rial (Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, 2011, Cat. No: 88697922562)

References

  1. ^ "Emma und Eginhard". Goldberg: Early Music Magazine. No. 47–49. 2007. p. 51. Emma und Eginhard, written to a libretto by Christian Gottlieb Wend, is undoubtedly one of the best of the Hamburg