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 the Austrian poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal and, from Yiddish, the poet and playwright Itzik Manger.

From New York Times ● Jan. 9, 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

The scene painted by Hofmannsthal might, on the whole, be used as a setting for "Countess Mizzie."

From The Lonely Way—Intermezzo—Countess Mizzie Three Plays by Edwin Björkman

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