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Engelbert Humperdinck

Engelbert Humperdinck (1854 - 1921)

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Engelbert Humperdinck (1 September 1854 ? 27 September 1921) was a German composer, best known for his opera, Hänsel und Gretel (ca. 1891). Humperdinck was born at Siegburg, in the Rhine Province.

After receiving piano lessons, Humperdinck produced his first composition at the age of seven. His first attempts at works for the stage were two Singspiele when he was 13. His parents did not approve of his becoming a musician, but despite them encouraging him to study architecture, he took music classes at the Cologne Conservatory, which he entered in 1872 under Ferdinand Hiller. In 1876 he won a scholarship which enabled him to go to Munich, where he studied with Franz Paul Lachner and later with Josef Rheinberger. In 1879 he was the first to win the Mendelssohn Award awarded by the Mendelssohn Stiftung (foundation) of Berlin. He went to Italy, and became acquainted with Richard Wagner in Naples. Wagner invited him to go to Bayreuth, and during 1880?81 Humperdinck assisted in the production of Parsifal. Having won another prize, however, he went again to Southern Europe, traveling through Italy, France and Spain, spending two years in Barcelona teaching at the Gran Teatre del Liceu conservatoire. In 1887 he returned to Cologne, and was appointed professor at the Hoch Conservatory (Frankfurt-am-Main) in 1890, and also teacher of harmony at Julius Stockhausen's Vocal School. By this time he had composed several works for chorus and a Humoreske for orchestra, which enjoyed a vogue in Germany. His opera Hänsel und Gretel was written in Frankfurt, ca. 1891.[1]

He would later be credited as the inspiration for the character of Prince Humperdinck in William Goldman's 1973 novel, The Princess Bride,[2] though some scholars argue that the fictitious prince was based on the singer of the same name, a contemporary of Goldman's.[3]

His chief reputation rests on his opera Hänsel und Gretel, which was produced at Weimar, 1893. In 1896 the Kaiser made Humperdinck a Professor and he went to live at Boppard. Four years later, however, he went to Berlin where he was appointed head of a Meister-Schule of composition. Among his other stage works are Die sieben Geißlein (The Seven Little Kids) (1895), Die Königskinder (The King's Children) (1897, 1910), Dornröschen (Sleeping Beauty)(1902), Die Heirat wider Willen (The Reluctant Marriage) (1905), Bübchens Weihnachtstraum (The Christmas Dream) (1906), Die Marketenderin (The Vivandière) (1914), Gaudeamus: Szenen aus dem deutschen Studentenleben (Gaudeamus: Scenes from German Studentlife) (1919).

Humperdinck was greatly influenced by Richard Wagner, and worked as his assistant. In his melodrama Die Königskinder (1897), Humperdinck became the first composer to use Sprechgesang, a vocal technique halfway between singing and speaking that was used later by Arnold Schoenberg.

In 1914 Humperdinck seems to have applied for the post of director of the New South Wales Conservatorium of Music in Sydney, but with the outbreak of World War I it became unthinkable for a German to hold this position, and the job went instead to Belgium's Henri Verbrugghen.[4]

Humperdinck received the Frankfurt Mozart Prize in 1876, and with its help he was able to travel to Munich. There, Humperdinck continued to take classes to develop his talent in music, finding many opportunities to gain experience both composing and performing. For over ten years he met many important composers such as Franz Lachner, Giovanni Sgambati, and Richard Wagner and heard their works. He eventually became one of Wagner's most important students and assistants, and eventually became music tutor to the great composer's son, Siegfried Wagner. Humperdinck subsequently held various teaching positions of distinction and enjoyed a long and fruitful collaboration in the theatre with the great playwright and director Max Reinhardt, providing incidental music for a number of Shakespearean productions in Berlin. While in Berlin, Humperdinck began work on Hänsel und Gretel after his sister asked him to compose music for a play for her children in 1890. He first started to compose Hänsel und Gretel, based on the fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, as a Singspiel consisting of a play with 16 songs and piano accompaniment. A few months later, he presented his fiancée Hedwig Taxer with Hänsel und Gretel as an engagement present.

Quickly realizing the work's potential, Humperdinck instead decided to create a full-scale opera, and in January 1891 he began working on a complete orchestration. Nearly three years later Richard Strauss ?who dubbed it 'a masterpiece of the highest quality? all of it original, new, and so authentically German'? conducted its premiere. With its highly original synthesis of Wagnerian techniques and traditional German folk songs, Hänsel und Gretel was an instant and overwhelming success. It was such a success that in 1923 it became the first complete opera ever to be broadcast on radio (from Covent Garden, London), and eight years later it was the first to be transmitted live from the Metropolitan Opera. Shortly before his death in 1921, Humperdinck developed a hearing affliction and remained partially deaf for the remainder of his life.

On January 5, 1912, Humperdinck suffered a severe stroke. Although he was eventually able to recover, his left hand remained permanently paralyzed. During the summer of 1915, he began to compose what would be his final work for the stage, Gaudeamus, and with the help of his son, Wolfram, it was completed in 1918. On September 26, 1921, Humperdinck attended the performance of Wolfram's first production as a director of Carl Maria von Weber's Der Freischütz in Neustrelitz. During the performance he had a heart attack. He died the next day from a second heart attack. In his memory, Hänsel und Gretel was performed several weeks later by the Berlin State Opera. The opera is still a worldwide favorite.
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Rosengesang (Gesang der Rosenmädchen) from Dornröschen (EHWV 121)
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Dornröschen (EHWV 121)
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Soli, Chorus and Orchestra / 1 PDF /

1910
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Die Lerche "The Skylark" (EHWV 127)
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Piano and Voice / 1 PDF /

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Youthful Songs (Geheimniss "Love's Secret") (EHWV 107 No.7)
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Piano and Voice / 1 PDF /

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Cradle Song "Wiegenlied"
Engelbert Humperdinck

Piano and Voice / 1 PDF /

1910
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Hänsel und Gretel (Vocal score)
Engelbert Humperdinck

Piano and Voice / 1 PDF /
Arranger : Kleinmichel, Richard

1891–92
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Hänsel und Gretel
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Soli, Chorus and Orchestra (original instrumentation) / 41 PDF /

1891–92
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Mädchenpreis des fahrenden Sängers
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1910s
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