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CONTRIBUTIONS OF J. C. FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER TO THE ART OF OPERA

Mehmet Baltacan


Known as a German poet and writer in Turkey, Friedrich von Schiller brought numerious works in different areas such as dramas, ballads, philosophic essays and lyric poems into the World literature during his 46 year life. These works of Schiller becoming reputed with great dramas like “Die Räuber”, ”Kabale und Liebe”, “Don Carlos”, “Wilhelm Tell” and “Maria Stuart” were rewritten as opera texts and composed by opera composers and libretists, and these works contributing to the art of opera as repertory have taken part in the World opera repertory as qualified ones. In this study, the related literature to Schillers life and Works will be scanned, and by examining the works rewritten as opera texts and their composers, the importance of these works will be tried to be analyzed in terms of the art of opera.