Carl Borromäus von Miltitz
Carl Borromäus von Miltitz (German: Karl Borromäus von Miltitz; 9 November 1781 – 19 January 1845) was a German composer, poet, and short story writer.[1]
Life
[edit]Miltitz was born in Dresden on 9 November 1781.[1]
He held a literary circle at his ancestral castle Schloss Scharfenberg for about six years from 1811,[2] with several leading writers of the time, including Novalis, Christian Gottfried Körner, Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, Johann August Apel and E. T. A. Hoffmann.[3] He was also a patron of artists, several of whom were commissioned to paint the castle, such as Ernst Ferdinand Oehme, Thomas Fearnley, Johan Christian Clausen Dahl and Caspar David Friedrich.[4]
In 1823‚ he dined with American diplomat and writer Washington Irving in Dresden.[5]
Miltitz' brother Alexander was ambassador to Constantinople, and wrote a highly regarded book, The Manual of Consuls.[1]
Works
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- Operas
- Incidental music
- The Bride of Messina unpublished overture (1838)[6]
- Lied
- Short stories
- "Der Bergmönch" ('The Mountain Monk') in Wunderbuch (volume 3, 1817)
- "Muhme Bleich" ('Aunt Pale') in Wunderbuch (volume 3, 1817)
- "Friedbert" ('Friedbert') in Wunderbuch (volume 3, 1817)
- "Die zwölf Nächte" ('The Twelve Nights') in Aus der Geisterwelt (volume 1, 1818)
- "Die Todtenrache" ('The Revenge of the Dead') in Aus der Geisterwelt (volume 2, 1818)
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e Thomas, Joseph, ed. (1887). "Miltitz, von". The Universal Dictionary of Biography and Mythology. London: J. S. Virtue. p. 1590.
- ^ Schultze, Clemence (2011). "More Than Meets the Eye: Moritz Retzsch and The Chess-Players". Journal (Charlotte M. Yonge Fellowship) (10). Charlotte M. Yonge Fellowship: 103–104. ISSN 1466-0938. JSTOR 45301082. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
- ^ "Schloss Scharfenberg". schloss-scharfenberg.de. Retrieved 1 August 2023.
- ^ Gröger, Helmuth (1940). Schloss Scharfenberg. Castles in Saxony. Saxony: Heimatwerk. p. 129.
- ^ Trent, William P.; Hellman, George S., eds. (1919). "The Second Dresden Diary: January 20, – May 20, 1823". The Journals of Washington Irving (Hitherto Unpublished). Boston: The Bibliophile Society. p. 177.
- ^ Breul, Karl (1913). "Introduction". Die Braut Von Messina. Cambridge University Press. p. xxiii.
- ^ "Music in Boston". Musical Courier. Vol. 36, no. 934. 26 January 1898. p. 24.
- ^ McDaniel, Mary Eileen (May 1973). Dramatic Expression in Thirty Musical Settings of Goethe's "Der Erlkönig" (MMus thesis). North Texas State University. p. 26. OCLC 43554936.
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[edit]- 1781 births
- 1845 deaths
- 19th-century German classical composers
- 19th-century German male musicians
- 19th-century German male writers
- 19th-century German poets
- 19th-century German short story writers
- 19th-century philanthropists
- German male opera composers
- German male poets
- German male short story writers
- German patrons of the arts
- Musicians from Dresden
- Patrons of the visual arts
- Writers from Dresden