New version (1956/57)
Original version (1934/35, see there)
after Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, by Hermann Scherchen, Wolfgang Petzet and Karl Amadeus Hartmann
Carl Orff zugeeignet [“dedicated Carl Orff”]
New version with overture (1939), interludes, musical dialogues, choric string instrumentation, dramaturgical interventions and alternative ending
Performance duration: ca. 85′
First performance: July 9, 1959, Mannheim (Conductor: Karl Fischer & Production: Joachim Klaiber)
based on “Fuenteovejuna” by Lope de Vega (sketches)
planed Opera “Undine” after Jean Giraudoux (sketches)
Plan for a scenic project based on “Antigone” by Sophocles (sketches)
Music for Shakespeare’s “Macbeth”
8 movements
Composed as proof of employment using the Jewish song “Eliyahu hanavi
First performance: Munich Residence Theatre
3 scenes from his youth (1934/35)
New version (1956/57, s. dort)
after Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, by Hermann Scherchen, Wolfgang Petzet and Karl Amadeus Hartmann
Aufführungsdauer: ca. 85′ (abhängig von Fassung)
First performance (concertante): April 2, 1948, Bayerischer Rundfunk (Conductor: Hans Rosbaud)
First performance (scenic): October 20, 1949, Cologne (Conductor: Richard Kraus, Staging: Erich Bormann)
This piece was written in 1929, an arrangement (fair copy for the planned performance) is dated 1932
Libretto: Erich Bormann
I Leben und Sterben des heiligen Teufels [Rasputin] [“Life and death of the holy devil”]
II Der Mann, der vom Tode auferstand [“The man who rose from the dead”] (after sketches completed by Günter Bialas & Hans Werner Henze)
III Chaplin-Ford-Trott (after sketches completed by Wilfried Hiller)
IV fürwahr……?! [“forsooth……?!”] (after sketches completed by Hans Werner Henze)
V Die Witwe von Ephesus [“The widow of Ephesus”]
Performance duration: 18′ / 12′ / 22′ / 11′ / 20′
First performance (complete work): May 29, 1988 (Münchner Biennale, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Conductor: Georg Schmöhe, Production: Ian Strasfogel, Stage design: Hans Hoffer, Costumes: Elisabeth Seiringer)
First performance (“Leben und Sterben des heiligen Teufels”, piano version): 1930