On Wednesday, November 15, 1995 at 8:00:00 AM UTC, Jill Sorenson wrote:
As promised, here is the list of classical music based upon literature. Please remember that I have only *compiled* this list and have not had an opportunity to check on the entries. If you have any clarifications or additions, please e-mail me. Thank you again for your support.
JILL
CLASSIC LITERATURE CLASSICS
Composer/Piece/Author
Barber/Dover Beach/Matthew Arnold poem
Barber/Knoxville 1915/
Barber/Music from a scene from Shelly
Bartok/Bluebeard's Castle
Beethoven/Cariolan
Beethoven/Die Geshopfe des Prometheus/
Beethoven/Egmont Overture
Beethoven/Piano Sonata No. 23, Op. 57 Appassionata/Shakespeare's Tempest Berlioz/Harold in Italy
Berlioz/King Lear/Shakespeare
Berlioz/Les Troyens/Virgil's Aenead
Berlioz/Opera based upon Faust/Goethe
Berlioz/Romeo & Julliet/Shakespeare
Berlioz/Sampson & Delilah/Bible
Bernstein/Symphony No. 2, Age of Anxiety/W.H. Auden poem
Bizet/Carmen
Boito/Opera based upon Faust/Goethe
Brahms/Alto Rhapsody/Poem by Goethe
Britten/Billy Budd/Melville
Britten/Death in Venice/Thomas Mann
Britten/A Midsummer Night's Dream/Shakespeare
Britten/Turn of the Screw
Britten/War Requiem/Wilfred Owen
Chausson/Poem de l'amour et de la mer/
Corigliano/The Ghosts of Versailles/Moliere play
Corigliano/Pied Piper Fantasy
Debussy/La Damoiselle elue/Poet by Dante Gabriel Rosetti
Debussy/Prelude to an Afternoon of a faun/Mallarme poem
Del Tredici/All in the Golden Afternoon/based upon Alice in Wonderland Diamond/Romeo & Juliet/Shakespeare
Dvorak/Othello/Shakespeare
Faure/Caligula/
Faure/Pelleas et Melisande/Maeterlinck
Faure/Shylock/Shakespeare
Finzi/Love's Labour's Lost Suite/Shakespe are
Gluck/Don Juan/
Gluck/Orfeo & Euridice/based upon mythology
Goetz/Taming of the Shrew/Shakespeare
Gounod/Opera based upon Faust/Goethe
Gounod/Romeo & Juliet/Shakespeare
Handel/Israel in Egypt/Bible
Handel/Messiah/Bible
Haydn/The Creation/Bible
Hindemith/When Lilacs last in the Dooryard Bloom'd/Whitman poem Hindemith/Requiem for Those We Loved/Whitman
Holst/Egdon Heath/Thomas Hardy
Humperdinck/Incidental music for Hansel and Gretel/
Brothers Grimm or Hans Christian Anderson????
Koechelin/Les Bandar-Log/Kipling's Jungle Books
Lars-Erik Larson/Winter's Tale/Shakespeare
Liszt/After a Lecture from Dante/Dante
Liszt/Annees de Pelerinage (Years of Pilgrimage) Vol. 2, Sonatas 47, 104 and 123/
Petrarach
Liszt/After a lecture from Dante/Dante
Liszt/Dante Sonata/Dante
Liszt/Dante Symphony/Dante
Liszt/Hamlet/Shakespeare
Liszt/Faust Symphony/Goethe
Liszt/Plutarch Sonnets/
Liszt/Two Legends/
Mahler/Das lied von der erde
Mahler/Das Knaben Wunderhorn
Massenet/Don Quixote/Cervantes
Massenet/Suite No. 1/Shakespeare
Massenet/Werther
Mendelssohn/A MidsummerNight'sDream/Shakespeare
Mendelssoh/Elijah/Bible
Milhaud/L'Album de Madame Bovary
Monteverdi/L'Orfeo
E. Morricone/Hamlet film score/Shakespeare
Mozart/Marriage of Figaro/Moliere play
E. Morricone/Hamlet film score/Shakespeare
Prokofiev/The Gambler
Prokofiev/Romeo & Juliet/Shakespeare
Prokofiev/War & Peace/Tolstoy
Purcel/Dido and Aeneas/Virgil's Aenead
Purcell/Timon of Athens/Shakespeare
Ravel/Moother Goose Suite
Reynolds/Behind the Unreasoning Mask/Melville's Moby Dick
Reynolds/The Serpent Snapping Eye/Melville's Moby Dick Rimsky-Korsakov/Scheherezade
Rossini/Il Barbiere di Siviglia/Moliere play
Rossini/La Cenerentola (Cinderella)/
Rossini/Othello/Shakespeare
Nicolai/Merry Wives of Windsor/Shakespeare
Nino Rota/Romeo & Juliet/Shakespeare
Sessions/When Lilacs last in the Dooryard Bloom'd/Whitman poem Shostakovich/Hamlet/Shakespeare
Sibelius/Pellease & Melisande/Maeterlinck play
Sibelius/Pohjola's Daughter/based upon Nordic myth Sibelius/Swanwhite/Strindberg play
Sibelius/Tapiola
Sibelius/Tempest/Shakespeare
R. Strauss/Also Spracht Zarathustra/Nietschze
R. Strauss/Don Juan
R. Strauss/Don Quixote/Cervantes
R. Strauss/Elektra
R. Strauss/Salome/Oscar Wilde
Tchaikovsky/Eugene Onegin/Pushkin epic poem
Tchaikovsky/Francesca da Rimini/Dante's Divine Comedy Tchaikovksy/Hamlet/Shakespeare
Tchaikovsky/Manfred Sympony/Byron poem
Tchaikovsky/Nutcracker/Based upon Dumas story on E.T.A. Hoffman's "Nussknacker and Mausekonig"
Tchaikovsky/Romeo & Juliet/Shakespeare
Tchaikovsky/Sleeping Beauty Ballet/Perrault "La Belle Au Bois Dormant" Tchaikovsky/Tempest/Shakespeare
Tchakiovsky/**All eleven of his operas are based upon literary works Thomas/Hamlet/Shakespeare
Vaugh Williams/Lark Ascending/George Meredith poem
Vaugh Williams/Pilgrim's Progress/Bunyan
Vaugh Williams/Sea Symphony/Whitman
Verdi/Falstaff (Merry Wives of Windsor)/Shakespeare
Verdi/La Traviata/Alexandre Dumas' Lady of the Camillias Verdi/Macbeth/Shakespeare
Verdi/Nabucco
Verdi/Othello/Shakespeare
Verdi/Rigoletto/Victor Hugo
Walton/Fascade Suite/Sitwell
Compiled by JMSorenson with the generous support of the Internet Usenet group rec.music.classical
November 7, 1995
As promised, here is the list of classical music based upon literature. Please remember that I have only *compiled* this list and have not had an opportunity to check on the entries. If you have any clarifications or additions, please e-mail me. Thank you again for your support.
JILL
CLASSIC LITERATURE CLASSICS
Composer/Piece/Author
Barber/Dover Beach/Matthew Arnold poem
Barber/Knoxville 1915/
Barber/Music from a scene from Shelly
Bartok/Bluebeard's Castle
Beethoven/Cariolan
Beethoven/Die Geshopfe des Prometheus/
Beethoven/Egmont Overture
Beethoven/Piano Sonata No. 23, Op. 57 Appassionata/Shakespeare's Tempest Berlioz/Harold in Italy
Berlioz/King Lear/Shakespeare
Berlioz/Les Troyens/Virgil's Aenead
Berlioz/Opera based upon Faust/Goethe
Berlioz/Romeo & Julliet/Shakespeare
Berlioz/Sampson & Delilah/Bible
Bernstein/Symphony No. 2, Age of Anxiety/W.H. Auden poem
Bizet/Carmen
Boito/Opera based upon Faust/Goethe
Brahms/Alto Rhapsody/Poem by Goethe
Britten/Billy Budd/Melville
Britten/Death in Venice/Thomas Mann
Britten/A Midsummer Night's Dream/Shakespeare
Britten/Turn of the Screw
Britten/War Requiem/Wilfred Owen
Chausson/Poem de l'amour et de la mer/
Corigliano/The Ghosts of Versailles/Moliere play
Corigliano/Pied Piper Fantasy
Debussy/La Damoiselle elue/Poet by Dante Gabriel Rosetti
Debussy/Prelude to an Afternoon of a faun/Mallarme poem
Del Tredici/All in the Golden Afternoon/based upon Alice in Wonderland Diamond/Romeo & Juliet/Shakespeare
Dvorak/Othello/Shakespeare
Faure/Caligula/
Faure/Pelleas et Melisande/Maeterlinck
Faure/Shylock/Shakespeare
Finzi/Love's Labour's Lost Suite/Shakespe are
Gluck/Don Juan/
Gluck/Orfeo & Euridice/based upon mythology
Goetz/Taming of the Shrew/Shakespeare
Gounod/Opera based upon Faust/Goethe
Gounod/Romeo & Juliet/Shakespeare
Handel/Israel in Egypt/Bible
Handel/Messiah/Bible
Haydn/The Creation/Bible
Hindemith/When Lilacs last in the Dooryard Bloom'd/Whitman poem Hindemith/Requiem for Those We Loved/Whitman
Holst/Egdon Heath/Thomas Hardy
Humperdinck/Incidental music for Hansel and Gretel/
Brothers Grimm or Hans Christian Anderson????
Koechelin/Les Bandar-Log/Kipling's Jungle Books
Lars-Erik Larson/Winter's Tale/Shakespeare
Liszt/After a Lecture from Dante/Dante
Liszt/Annees de Pelerinage (Years of Pilgrimage) Vol. 2, Sonatas 47, 104
and 123/
Petrarach
Liszt/After a lecture from Dante/Dante
Liszt/Dante Sonata/Dante
Liszt/Dante Symphony/Dante
Liszt/Hamlet/Shakespeare
Liszt/Faust Symphony/Goethe
Liszt/Plutarch Sonnets/
Liszt/Two Legends/
Mahler/Das lied von der erde
Mahler/Das Knaben Wunderhorn
Massenet/Don Quixote/Cervantes
Massenet/Suite No. 1/Shakespeare
Massenet/Werther
Mendelssohn/A MidsummerNight'sDream/Shakespeare
Mendelssoh/Elijah/Bible
Milhaud/L'Album de Madame Bovary
Monteverdi/L'Orfeo
E. Morricone/Hamlet film score/Shakespeare
Mozart/Marriage of Figaro/Moliere play
E. Morricone/Hamlet film score/Shakespeare
Prokofiev/The Gambler
Prokofiev/Romeo & Juliet/Shakespeare
Prokofiev/War & Peace/Tolstoy
Purcel/Dido and Aeneas/Virgil's Aenead
Purcell/Timon of Athens/Shakespeare
Ravel/Moother Goose Suite
Reynolds/Behind the Unreasoning Mask/Melville's Moby Dick
Reynolds/The Serpent Snapping Eye/Melville's Moby Dick Rimsky-Korsakov/Scheherezade
Rossini/Il Barbiere di Siviglia/Moliere play
Rossini/La Cenerentola (Cinderella)/
Rossini/Othello/Shakespeare
Nicolai/Merry Wives of Windsor/Shakespeare
Nino Rota/Romeo & Juliet/Shakespeare
Sessions/When Lilacs last in the Dooryard Bloom'd/Whitman poem Shostakovich/Hamlet/Shakespeare
Sibelius/Pellease & Melisande/Maeterlinck play
Sibelius/Pohjola's Daughter/based upon Nordic myth Sibelius/Swanwhite/Strindberg play
Sibelius/Tapiola
Sibelius/Tempest/Shakespeare
R. Strauss/Also Spracht Zarathustra/Nietschze
R. Strauss/Don Juan
R. Strauss/Don Quixote/Cervantes
R. Strauss/Elektra
R. Strauss/Salome/Oscar Wilde
Tchaikovsky/Eugene Onegin/Pushkin epic poem
Tchaikovsky/Francesca da Rimini/Dante's Divine Comedy Tchaikovksy/Hamlet/Shakespeare
Tchaikovsky/Manfred Sympony/Byron poem
Tchaikovsky/Nutcracker/Based upon Dumas story on E.T.A. Hoffman's "Nussknacker and Mausekonig"
Tchaikovsky/Romeo & Juliet/Shakespeare
Tchaikovsky/Sleeping Beauty Ballet/Perrault "La Belle Au Bois Dormant" Tchaikovsky/Tempest/Shakespeare
Tchakiovsky/**All eleven of his operas are based upon literary works Thomas/Hamlet/Shakespeare
Vaugh Williams/Lark Ascending/George Meredith poem
Vaugh Williams/Pilgrim's Progress/Bunyan
Vaugh Williams/Sea Symphony/Whitman
Verdi/Falstaff (Merry Wives of Windsor)/Shakespeare
Verdi/La Traviata/Alexandre Dumas' Lady of the Camillias Verdi/Macbeth/Shakespeare
Verdi/Nabucco
Verdi/Othello/Shakespeare
Verdi/Rigoletto/Victor Hugo
Walton/Fascade Suite/Sitwell
Compiled by JMSorenson with the generous support of the Internet Usenet
group rec.music.classical
November 7, 1995
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