Egon Wellesz
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Egon Joseph Wellesz, CBE, FBA was an Austrian, later British composer, teacher and musicologist, notable particularly in the field of Byzantine music.
Egon Wellesz 1927 © Georg Fayer
Grave of Egon Wellesz, his wife and other family members at the Zentralfriedhof in Vienna
Die Bakchantinnen
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Die Bakchantinnen, Op. 44, is a 1931 German-language opera by Egon Wellesz to a libretto by the composer after Euripides' play The Bacchae.
Egon Wellesz
…libretti and ballet scenarios written by the important literary figures Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Jakob Wassermann. Operas such as Alkestis (1924) and Die Bakchantinnen (1931) take their subject matter from ancient mythology and, in contrast to the Wagnerian tradition, use techniques such as dance pantomime and coloratura…
Maenads tearing Pentheus apart