biography
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Hoffmann, E(rnst) T(heodor) W(ilhelm)
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known as Amadeus
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| lived:
| (1776–1822)
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| biography:
| Writer, composer, music critic, and caricaturist, born in Königsberg, Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia). Trained as a lawyer, he had an unsettled career until 1816, when he attained a high position in the Supreme Court in Berlin. His shorter tales were mostly published in the collections Phantasiestücke (1814), and Nachtstücke (1817, trans Hoffman's Strange Stories), which was an inspiration for Offenbach's opera Tales of Hoffmann, and also for Delibes's Coppélia. His longer works include Elixiere des Teufels (1816, The Devil's Elixir). His most important opera was Undine, and he also composed vocal, chamber, orchestral, and piano works. |
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