Hofmannsthal

American  

[hawf-mahns-tahl] / ˈhɔf mɑnsˌtɑl /

noun

1. Hugo von 1874–1929, Austrian poet, playwright, and librettist.

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Hofmannsthal British  

/ ˈhoːfmanstaːl /

noun

1. Hugo von (ˈhuːɡo fɔn). 1874–1929, Austrian lyric poet and dramatist, noted as the librettist for Richard Strauss' operas, esp Der Rosenkavalier (1911), Elektra (1909), and Ariadne auf Naxos (1912)

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Hofmannsthal

Director Max Reinhardt, composer Richard Strauss and dramatist Hugo von Hofmannsthal founded the festival to promote peace following World War I, an idea they are said to have formed at Reinhardt’s nearby Schloss Leopoldskron.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 11, 2023

She also translated German works by Marie Luise Kaschnitz and Hugo von Hofmannsthal, whose play “The Salzburg Great Theatre of the World” she helped translate for a production at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 23, 2020

No less important, Schorske overran the boundaries of specialist writing, pursuing the trajectories of figures from various disciplines: Freud, Otto Wagner, Schnitzler, Hofmannsthal, Klimt, Schoenberg, Kokoschka.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 28, 2015

Or, more harshly, it might be seen as a prissy update of “Der Rosenkavalier” that would have benefited from some redrafting prevented by the death of its librettist, Hugo von Hofmannsthal.

From New York Times ● Jul. 12, 2015

Hugo von Hofmannsthal was for a long time considered a perfect specimen of that type.

From The German Classics, v. 20 Masterpieces of German Literature by Various