Das Veilchen
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"Das Veilchen", K. 476, is a song for voice and piano by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, written in Vienna on 8 June 1785, to a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
Detail of Joseph Lange's 1782–83 Mozart portrait
Erwin und Elmire (André)
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Erwin und Elmire is a singspiel, described as a Schauspiel mit Gesang, in two acts by the German composer Johann André, with a libretto by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, after Oliver Goldsmith's ballad o
Das Veilchen
…Wolfgang von Goethe. Goethe wrote the poem in 1773 or early 1774. It was first published in March 1775 in his first Singspiel Erwin und Elmire which was first set to music in 1775 by the German composer Johann André (a revival in 1776 used music by Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel and by Carl David Stegmann, and…
Detail of a portrait of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe by Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, oil on canvas.