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Hofmannsthal Hugo von . 1874--1929, Austrian lyric poet and dramatist, noted as the librettist for Richard Strauss' operas, esp Der Rosenkavalier (1911), Elektra (1909), and Ariadne auf Naxos (1912) How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Information about the seldom-performed song cycle 6 Monologes aus Jedermann by Frank Martin is offered in the entry under dramatist Hugo von Hofmannsthal, who wrote the text. The first explicit use of the term I have ever seen was by Hugo von Hofmannsthal in 1902, who referred to "the damned up force of our mysterious ancestors within us" and "piled up layers of accumulated collective memory" (cited in Schieder), though this was a poetic allusion rather than the seed of a sociological theory of memory. In fact, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, the Austrian poet and dramatist, was one of the first non-American critics who in his "Dramaturgical Reflections" (1922) already highlighted this interpretation: "The close of . |
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