E.W. Korngold: Die Tote Stadt (Schott)
Contributed by René Villeaux
on Dec 24th, 2022. Artwork published in
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Schott Music, 1920. License: All Rights Reserved.
Many German publishers – especially such who offer sheet music – loved Walter Tiemann’s Tiemann-Mediäval, like Schott, Peters, and Bärenreiter. This title page for Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s Die tote Stadt is an obvious example. It was first published by B. Schott’s Söhne, today known as Schott Music, in 1920. “DIE TOTE STADT” is set in Tiemann-Mediäval regular, and all other text on this page uses Tiemann-Mediäval italic.
Die tote Stadt (The Dead City), Op. 12, is an opera in three acts by Erich Wolfgang Korngold set to a libretto by Paul Schott, a collective pseudonym for the composer and his father, Julius Korngold. It is based on the 1892 novel Bruges-la-Morte by Georges Rodenbach.
