Talk:Hans Heiling

Article improvements

To do:

• Enlarge the music section

• Create a section about the mythological basis for the opera (this goes hand-in-hand with the page I had to make here: Hans Heiling (mythology) but that doesn't contain enough relevent information, and that information appears to be almost all that Google throws up outside of Czech pages (which Babelfish can't translate).

• Create a section about the composition of the opera, and if possible expand on its reception. This would require a specialist book which I don't have ATM.

• Confirm the correct name of Philipp Eduard Devrient - he is mentioned both as that and Eduard Devrient.

I also found this German site, which seems to list the instrumentation:

http://www.operone.de/opern/hansheiling.html

But unfortunately I don't know what "Schlagzeug" translates into - I can only find it as a generic term for any drum (I could guess timpani but I don't want to). Lethesl 19:07, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

Edit: GuillaumeTell helped me find that Schlagzeug is percussion, so this is no problem, but now I've run into another. It mentions the instrumentation twice, the second time it is smaller. The groups are seperated by "Streicher Bühnenmusik", which I am unsure how to translate. If it is "string section", then I am unsure why the other instruments are mentioned twice, etc. Lethesl 00:36, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

I meant to answer the above long ago but somehow didn't get round to it (story of my life!).

• "Streicher", meaning "strings" is the last of the instruments listed for the pit orchestra. On the next line, the italicised "Bühnenmusik:", followed by "2 flutes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, trumpet and 3 trombones" means "stage band" (either onstage or offstage) containing those instruments. The Heiling entry in the Viking Opera Guide, however, merely says "3 extra trombones beneath the stage".
• Devrient. My shiny new New Grove Dictionary of Opera - which the Opera Project uses as the basic reference work - lists him as "Devrient, Eduard (Philipp)", implying that he didn't use the "Philipp". The Heiling and Marschner articles describe him as "E Devrient". The Oxford Dictionary of Opera lists him as "Devrient, Eduard". I'll move his page, which will create a redirect from Philipp Eduard Devrient.

--GuillaumeTell 16:47, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

Danke! :D Too tired to add the instrumentation, but I fixed the librettist name Lethe 19:04, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

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