La Damnation de Faust
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La Damnation de Faust, Op. 24 is a French musical composition for four solo voices, full seven-part chorus, large children's chorus and orchestra by the French composer Hector Berlioz. He called it a
Hector Berlioz
Faust, Part One
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Faust: A Tragedy is the first part of the tragic play Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and is considered by many as the greatest work of German literature. It was first published in 1808.
La Damnation de Faust
…dramatique ("dramatic legend"). It was first performed at the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 6 December 1846. Berlioz read Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust, Part One in 1828, in Gérard de Nerval's translation. "This marvelous book fascinated me from the first", he recalled in his Memoirs. "I could not put it down…
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Prologue in Heaven (1854) by Engelbert Seibertz
Dusk. On Goethe's Faust (1837) by Carl Gustav Carus
Faust and Mephistopheles (1848) by Ary Scheffer