Hans Heiling

opera by Marschner

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Hans Heiling is an opera by Heinrich August Marschner, a composer who significantly shaped German Romantic opera. The opera was first produced in Berlin in 1833 and remains in the German operatic repertoire. Marschner's work, including Hans Heiling, is characterized by the musical style and fascination with the supernatural common among early Romantics, alongside the expanded orchestral techniques that would later define composers like Richard Wagner. Marschner was encouraged by Ludwig van Beethoven and worked with Carl Maria von Weber, who produced one of Marschner's earlier operas.1

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Heinrich August Marschner
His most successful opera, Hans Heiling, was produced in Berlin in 1833; it remains in the operatic repertory in Germany. He produced five further operas, but none of them achieved the success of his earlier works. Stylistically, Marschner exhibits both the musical flavour and the interest in the supernatural…
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His most successful opera, Hans Heiling, was produced in Berlin in 1833; it remains in the operatic repertory in Germany. He produced five further operas, but none of them achieved the success of his earlier works. Stylistically, Marschner exhibits both the musical flavour and the interest in the supernatural…
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