Die erste ungarische Operntragödie: Ferenc Erkels Bátori Mária. Quellen und Fassungen

Kim Szacsvai, Katalin (2014) Die erste ungarische Operntragödie: Ferenc Erkels Bátori Mária. Quellen und Fassungen. Studia Musicologica, 55 (3-4). pp. 237-293. ISSN 1788-6244

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Abstract

The paper examines the primary musical and textual sources of Ferenc Erkel’s first opera, Bátori Mária. The author comes to the conclusion which is new in the Erkel literature, namely that the composer who was working under pressure of time in the weeks immediately preceding the premiere scheduled for 8 August 1840, availed himself of the help of József Szerdahelyi, a fellow-composer at the Hungarian National Theatre who collaborated in the orchestration of Act 2. Even so, Erkel considered the version presented at the first night as far from finished. He felt compelled to withdraw the opera, and to offer it again to the audiences with substantial emendations in January 1841. Modifications and additions at later stages of the twenty years long performance history of the opera are also analyzed.

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