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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Example Sentences

Throughout, Davidsen alternates between conversational restraint — enunciating each syllable of Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s talky libretto with penetrating focus — and white-hot radiance.

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

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This season, dramatic epics like “Angels in America” and “The Inheritance” share the program with Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s “The Tower.”

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The Austrian Jewish Hofmannsthal, a leading literary figure in fin-de-siècle Vienna, is also one of Stoppard’s touchstones for recreating that period in “Leopoldstadt,” and comes in for high praise in a monologue extolling how Viennese Jews worship culture.

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“A new writer, if he’s a great poet like Hofmannsthal, walks among us like a demigod,” Stoppard has a character say.

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