| Jakob Lenz | |
|---|---|
| Chamber opera by Wolfgang Rihm | |
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| Librettist | Michael Fröhling |
| Language | German |
| Based on | Lenz (1836) by Georg Büchner |
| Premiere | 8 March 1979 |
Jakob Lenz is a one-act chamber opera by Wolfgang Rihm, written 1977–78 to a libretto by Michael Fröhling after Georg Büchner's 1836 novella Lenz which in turn is based on an incident in the life of the German poet Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz (1751–1792).[1] Rihm dedicated the opera to his teacher, Eugen Werner Velte.[2]
Rihm received for Jakob Lenz the Beethoven Prize of the city of Bonn in 1980.[3]
- ^ Spinola, Julia (13 November 2014). "So surren Nervenstränge". Die Zeit (in German). Hamburg. Retrieved 26 August 2018.
- ^ Work details, Universal Edition
- ^ Hartmann, Bernhard (30 September 2008). "Ein Experiment zu viel beim Beethovenfest-Finale mit Bamberger Symphonikern". General-Anzeiger (in German). Bonn. Retrieved 5 October 2017.