Faculty
Music
Supervisor Name
Edmund Goehring
Keywords
Anton Cremeri, Don Juan, Ernst Raupach, Der Müller und sein Kind, All Souls' Day, Allerseelenstücke, translation
Description
Since the early eighteenth century the Don Juan legend was a popular subject in Austrian theatres on All Souls' Day (November 2); a peculiar custom, given that the main character is a libertine who indulges in excesses without any fear of divine retribution. One such work was Anton Cremeri's Der steinerne Gast (The Stone Guest) published in 1787; coincidentally Mozart's Don Giovanni premiered in the same year.
In the nineteenth century Don Juan gradually disappeared from the stage, but the custom of performing plays on All Souls' Day did not. Ernst Raupach's 1835 piece Der Müller und sein Kind (The Miller and his Daughter; word-for-word The Miller and his Child) was one such play, and a popular one, for not only was it performed into the twentieth century, it also became the subject for Austria's oldest extant silent film.
This project aims to make these works more accessible to the Anglophone world through translations.
Acknowledgements
The student would like to express his gratitude to Dr. Edmund Goehring, the Western USRI program, and the Don Wright Faculty of Music for their support.
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English Translations of two German All-Souls’-Day Pieces
Since the early eighteenth century the Don Juan legend was a popular subject in Austrian theatres on All Souls' Day (November 2); a peculiar custom, given that the main character is a libertine who indulges in excesses without any fear of divine retribution. One such work was Anton Cremeri's Der steinerne Gast (The Stone Guest) published in 1787; coincidentally Mozart's Don Giovanni premiered in the same year.
In the nineteenth century Don Juan gradually disappeared from the stage, but the custom of performing plays on All Souls' Day did not. Ernst Raupach's 1835 piece Der Müller und sein Kind (The Miller and his Daughter; word-for-word The Miller and his Child) was one such play, and a popular one, for not only was it performed into the twentieth century, it also became the subject for Austria's oldest extant silent film.
This project aims to make these works more accessible to the Anglophone world through translations.