Kamillo Horn und das Melodram
Kamillo Horn and Melodrama

Summary/Abstract: The position of Fibich's contemporary Kamillo Horn (1860, Liberec - 1941, Vienna) in the musical culture of the Sudeten Germans and Vienna is yet to be sufficiently studied. A graduate of the Prague Conservatory in harp, and Bruckner's student of composition, Horn spent his life as a teacher of singing and musical theory, conductor of a choir, and musical critic, but above all he was a composer. He authored a number of chamber, piano and orchestral works; his key interest, however, lay in lyrical love songs, and choir compositions. I focus on Horn's literary inspiration, and analyse several melodramas based on the texts of German classic and contemporary authors, for example Op. 38 containing three short melodramas Der Fischer (Johann Wolfgang Goethe), Das Kind am Brunnen (Friedrich Hebbel) and Die Zwerge auf dem Baum (August Kopisch), published in Leipzig in 1908; or a ballad-like melodrama Graf Walter, Op. 39.

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