Cover of Hoffmann's Fairy Tales

Hoffmann's Fairy Tales

by Unknown Author

284 pages2007Kessinger Publishing, LLCISBN 9780548326909

Publication Details

Publisher
Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Published
2007
Pages
284
ISBN
9780548326909

About Unknown Author

Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann was a German Romantic author of fantasy and Gothic horror, a jurist, composer, music critic and artist. His stories form the basis of Jacques Offenbach's opera The Tales of Hoffmann, in which Hoffmann appears (heavily fictionalized) as the hero. He is also the author of the novella The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, on which Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker is based. The ballet Coppélia is based on two other stories that Hoffmann wrote, while Schumann's Kreisleriana is based on Hoffmann's character Johannes Kreisler.

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