Mathis der Maler
composer: Paul Hindemith
librettist: Paul Hindemith
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Text von Paul Hindemith
Premiere: 28. Mai 1938 Stadttheater Zürich · Dirigent: Robert F. Denzler · Inszenierung: Karl Schmid-Bloss und Hans Zimmermann · Bühnenbild:Roman Clemens
Orchestra instrumentation: 2 (beide auch Picc.) · 2 · 2 · 2 - 4 · 2 · 3 · 1 - P. S. (Trgl. · Gl. · hg. Beck · Beckenpaar · Tamt. · Tamb. · Rührtr. · Holztr. · kl. Tr. · gr. Tr. · Kast.) (3 Spieler) - Str. -
Bühnenmusik (im vierten Bild): 3 Trp. · Gl.
Cast of characters: Albrecht von Brandenburg, Kardinal, Erzbischof von Mainz · Tenor - Mathis, Maler in seinen Diensten · Bariton - Lorenz von Pommersfelden, Domdechant von Mainz · Bass - Wolfgang Capito, Rat des Kardinals · Tenor - Riedinger, ein reicher Mainzer Bürger · Bass - Hans Schwalb, Führer der aufständischen Bauern · Tenor - Truchsess von Waldburg, Befehlshaber des Bundesheeres · Bass - Sylvester von Schaumberg, einer seiner Offiziere · Tenor - der Graf von Helfenstein · stumme Rolle - der Pfeifer des Grafen · Tenor - Ursula, Riedingers Tochter · Sopran - Regina, Schwalbs Tochter · Sopran - Gräfin Helfenstein · Alt - Chor
Publisher: Schott Music
Duration: 180' 0''
Year of composition: 1934/1935
Edition: full score
Language: German
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At first, Paul Hindemith had been sceptical about his publisher’s suggestion to turn the life story of the painter Mathis Gothart Nithart (ca. 1480-1528), known under the name of Matthias Gruenewald, into an opera. But he skilfully interwove the artist’s biography with the social and religious battles of the time of the Peasants’ War into his libretto. Mathis’ struggle for artistic autonomy in a politically charged present has often been interpreted as an expression of Hindemith’s own situation in National Socialist Germany.
While he worked on the opera Mathis der Maler, Hindemith was commissioned by Wilhelm Furtwängler and the Berlin Philharmonic Opera to write an orchestral work. He put three of the orchestral interludes together to form the Symphony ‘Mathis der Maler’. Like the seven tableaux of the dramatic work, these movements refer to engravings from Grünewald’s masterpiece, the Isenheim Altar: Engelkonzert (Angel Concert), Grablegung (Entombment), Versuchung des heiligen Antonius (Temptation of Saint Anthony).
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