Frank Ziegler

Carl Maria von Weber‘s fame rests mainly on ‚Der Freischütz‘. The unprecedented success of this opera overshadowed all his other works and contributed to their increasing fall into oblivion. Certain w...

Weber's music for Preciosa can be regarded as an exceptional work in two respects: on the one hand, it stands out from Weber's further music output for the dramatic theatre as far as extent and qualit...

Carl Maria von Weber's fame rests mainly on 'Der Freischütz'. The unprecedented success of this opera overshadowed all his other works and contributed to their increasing fall into oblivion. Certain w...

Carl Maria von Weber's fame rests mainly on 'Der Freischütz'. The unprecedented success of this opera overshadowed all his other works and contributed to their increasing fall into oblivion. Certain w...

Weber was quite critical of the practice of arranging that had widely spread in the early 19th century. In his novel 'Tonkünstlers Leben' he mocked at far too overzealous contemporaries with fictitiou...

These movements are distinguished by a high, bold leap of imagination…', judged a reviewer of the first edition of the Trio. But it is likely that Weber never performed his Trio in public - perhaps an...

Carl Maria von Weber hat seine Berühmtheit vor allem dem Freischütz zu verdanken, dessen beispielloser Erfolg das übrige Schaffen des Komponisten mehr und mehr in Vergessenheit geraten ließ, obwohl no...

Carl Maria von Weber's fame rests mainly on ‚Der Freischütz'. The unprecedented success of this opera overshadowed all his other works and contributed to their increasing fall into oblivion. Certain w...

Carl Maria von Weber's fame rests mainly on ‚Der Freischütz'. The unprecedented success of this opera overshadowed all his other works and contributed to their increasing fall into oblivion. Certain w...

Carl Maria von Weber's fame rests mainly on 'Der Freischütz'. The unprecedented success of this opera overshadowed all his other works and contributed to their increasing fall into oblivion. Certain w...

These movements are distinguished by a high, bold leap of imagination…', judged a reviewer of the first edition of the Trio. But it is likely that Weber never performed his Trio in public - perhaps an...

Im Oktober 2006 fand in Dresden das Symposion Carl Maria von Weber - der Dresdner Kapellmeister und der Orchesterstil seiner Zeit' statt. Prominente Fachwissenschaftler thematisierten das Wirken Weber...

2011 hatte die Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber in Dresden zu einem Internationalen Symposion unter der Überschrift 'Carl Maria von Weber und das Virtuosentum seiner Zeit' eingeladen. Unter d...

Webers Euryanthe gilt als eine ‚schwierige' Oper, als ein ‚schwieriger Fall' innerhalb der Geschichte der deutschen Oper und im Besonderen innerhalb der deutschen Librettistik. Die problematische Reze...

Bis vor wenigen Jahren wurde der Schauspielmusik, abgesehen von einzelnen herausragenden Werken, von der Musikwissenschaft kaum Beachtung geschenkt; eine historiographische Gesamtdarstellung bzw. edit...

Carl Maria von Weber's fame rests mainly on 'Der Freischütz'. The unprecedented success of this opera overshadowed all his other works and contributed to their increasing fall into oblivion. Certain w...

Das Anliegen der Herausgeber, mit der Arbeit an der Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Gesamtausgabe auch den näheren Umkreis des Komponisten zu beleuchten und so das gesamte Umfeld frühromantischer Musik und Kunst...