On Wednesday, November 15, 1995 at 8:00:00 AM UTC, Jill Sorenson wrote:
As promised, here is the list of classical music based upon literature. Please remember that I have only *compiled* this list and have not had an opportunity to check on the entries. If you have any clarifications or additions, please e-mail me. Thank you again for your support.
JILL
CLASSIC LITERATURE CLASSICS
Composer/Piece/Author
Barber/Dover Beach/Matthew Arnold poem
Barber/Knoxville 1915/
Barber/Music from a scene from Shelly
Bartok/Bluebeard's Castle
Beethoven/Cariolan
Beethoven/Die Geshopfe des Prometheus/
Beethoven/Egmont Overture
Beethoven/Piano Sonata No. 23, Op. 57 Appassionata/Shakespeare's Tempest Berlioz/Harold in Italy
Berlioz/King Lear/Shakespeare
Berlioz/Les Troyens/Virgil's Aenead
Berlioz/Opera based upon Faust/Goethe
Berlioz/Romeo & Julliet/Shakespeare
Berlioz/Sampson & Delilah/Bible
Bernstein/Symphony No. 2, Age of Anxiety/W.H. Auden poem
Bizet/Carmen
Boito/Opera based upon Faust/Goethe
Brahms/Alto Rhapsody/Poem by Goethe
Britten/Billy Budd/Melville
Britten/Death in Venice/Thomas Mann
Britten/A Midsummer Night's Dream/Shakespeare
Britten/Turn of the Screw
Britten/War Requiem/Wilfred Owen
Chausson/Poem de l'amour et de la mer/
Corigliano/The Ghosts of Versailles/Moliere play
Corigliano/Pied Piper Fantasy
Debussy/La Damoiselle elue/Poet by Dante Gabriel Rosetti
Debussy/Prelude to an Afternoon of a faun/Mallarme poem
Del Tredici/All in the Golden Afternoon/based upon Alice in Wonderland Diamond/Romeo & Juliet/Shakespeare
Dvorak/Othello/Shakespeare
Faure/Caligula/
Faure/Pelleas et Melisande/Maeterlinck
Faure/Shylock/Shakespeare
Finzi/Love's Labour's Lost Suite/Shakespe are
Gluck/Don Juan/
Gluck/Orfeo & Euridice/based upon mythology
Goetz/Taming of the Shrew/Shakespeare
Gounod/Opera based upon Faust/Goethe
Gounod/Romeo & Juliet/Shakespeare
Handel/Israel in Egypt/Bible
Handel/Messiah/Bible
Haydn/The Creation/Bible
Hindemith/When Lilacs last in the Dooryard Bloom'd/Whitman poem Hindemith/Requiem for Those We Loved/Whitman
Holst/Egdon Heath/Thomas Hardy
Humperdinck/Incidental music for Hansel and Gretel/
Brothers Grimm or Hans Christian Anderson????
Koechelin/Les Bandar-Log/Kipling's Jungle Books
Lars-Erik Larson/Winter's Tale/Shakespeare
Liszt/After a Lecture from Dante/Dante
Liszt/Annees de Pelerinage (Years of Pilgrimage) Vol. 2, Sonatas 47, 104
and 123/
Petrarach
Liszt/After a lecture from Dante/Dante
Liszt/Dante Sonata/Dante
Liszt/Dante Symphony/Dante
Liszt/Hamlet/Shakespeare
Liszt/Faust Symphony/Goethe
Liszt/Plutarch Sonnets/
Liszt/Two Legends/
Mahler/Das lied von der erde
Mahler/Das Knaben Wunderhorn
Massenet/Don Quixote/Cervantes
Massenet/Suite No. 1/Shakespeare
Massenet/Werther
Mendelssohn/A MidsummerNight'sDream/Shakespeare
Mendelssoh/Elijah/Bible
Milhaud/L'Album de Madame Bovary
Monteverdi/L'Orfeo
E. Morricone/Hamlet film score/Shakespeare
Mozart/Marriage of Figaro/Moliere play
E. Morricone/Hamlet film score/Shakespeare
Prokofiev/The Gambler
Prokofiev/Romeo & Juliet/Shakespeare
Prokofiev/War & Peace/Tolstoy
Purcel/Dido and Aeneas/Virgil's Aenead
Purcell/Timon of Athens/Shakespeare
Ravel/Moother Goose Suite
Reynolds/Behind the Unreasoning Mask/Melville's Moby Dick
Reynolds/The Serpent Snapping Eye/Melville's Moby Dick Rimsky-Korsakov/Scheherezade
Rossini/Il Barbiere di Siviglia/Moliere play
Rossini/La Cenerentola (Cinderella)/
Rossini/Othello/Shakespeare
Nicolai/Merry Wives of Windsor/Shakespeare
Nino Rota/Romeo & Juliet/Shakespeare
Sessions/When Lilacs last in the Dooryard Bloom'd/Whitman poem Shostakovich/Hamlet/Shakespeare
Sibelius/Pellease & Melisande/Maeterlinck play
Sibelius/Pohjola's Daughter/based upon Nordic myth Sibelius/Swanwhite/Strindberg play
Sibelius/Tapiola
Sibelius/Tempest/Shakespeare
R. Strauss/Also Spracht Zarathustra/Nietschze
R. Strauss/Don Juan
R. Strauss/Don Quixote/Cervantes
R. Strauss/Elektra
R. Strauss/Salome/Oscar Wilde
Tchaikovsky/Eugene Onegin/Pushkin epic poem
Tchaikovsky/Francesca da Rimini/Dante's Divine Comedy Tchaikovksy/Hamlet/Shakespeare
Tchaikovsky/Manfred Sympony/Byron poem
Tchaikovsky/Nutcracker/Based upon Dumas story on E.T.A. Hoffman's "Nussknacker and Mausekonig"
Tchaikovsky/Romeo & Juliet/Shakespeare
Tchaikovsky/Sleeping Beauty Ballet/Perrault "La Belle Au Bois Dormant" Tchaikovsky/Tempest/Shakespeare
Tchakiovsky/**All eleven of his operas are based upon literary works Thomas/Hamlet/Shakespeare
Vaugh Williams/Lark Ascending/George Meredith poem
Vaugh Williams/Pilgrim's Progress/Bunyan
Vaugh Williams/Sea Symphony/Whitman
Verdi/Falstaff (Merry Wives of Windsor)/Shakespeare
Verdi/La Traviata/Alexandre Dumas' Lady of the Camillias Verdi/Macbeth/Shakespeare
Verdi/Nabucco
Verdi/Othello/Shakespeare
Verdi/Rigoletto/Victor Hugo
Walton/Fascade Suite/Sitwell
Compiled by JMSorenson with the generous support of the Internet Usenet
group rec.music.classical
November 7, 1995
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