!!!Fin de Siècle
!!Franz Lehár: ''Die lustige Witwe (The Merry Widow), ... Da geh ich ins Maxim!''

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The works of Franz Lehár (1870 Komorn/Hungary -
1948 Bad Ischl/Upper Austria, Illustration) are always
classified as light entertainment, although even as a
young man, he studied the ''serious'' compositional
techniques and used them innovatively. Far from any
fin-de-siècle death wish, Lehár presented
an alternative form of overcoming conflicts on the stage
30 years after the ''Fledermaus (cf.
[Johann Strauß|Wissenssammlungen/Musik-Lexikon/Johann_Strauß_Die_Fledermaus_und_Wiener_Blut/Johann_Strauß_Die_Fledermaus_english]''
Maxim's in the Operetta ''Die lustige Witwe '' (The
Merry Widow) (1905). Lehár manages to combine the
flamboyance of the opera with songlike melodies, whose
refrains have become the hits of the operetta literature,
and an orchestra accompaniment that supports the singers
as they move the emotions of the audience. The historical
interpretation from 1948 (Musical example) is a document
of the typically viennese sound of the Schoenherr Orchestra. (M. Saary)

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