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

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

Hofmannsthal, in his Electra, uses pantomime as only one detail, but no words could so paint the mad triumph of the sister of Orestes as does her “incredible dance.”

From Dramatic Technique by Baker, George Pierce