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Carol Haynes:
OK this is way off beam for DC.com but I know there are helpful people out there ....

I am trying to write an end of course essay about the relationship between literary texts and musical settings of those texts.

One of the works I have chosen (stupidly) to focus on is Schumann's Manfred Op 115 which is a setting of Byron's dramatic poem of the same name.

I have found loads of stuff to help me write the essay BUT (and it is a big BUT - like mine) I am short of two things:

1) The full German text Schumann used in the final work. I have a conductor's score which includes the sung text but there is a lot of spoken text as the work is a dramatic reading with music, solos and choirs.
2) The German translation Schumann used as a basis for his adaptation. The translation he used was a mainly literal translation of the Byron text by Karl Adolf Suckow (a Lutheran Pastor) also known as Posgaru.

I have spent days trawling Google and haven't managed to find either of these texts. I can't even find a book I can buy with the texts but they must exist somewhere as Manfred is occasionally performed and lots of people have written essays and Journal articles about it!

Anyone got any ideas or fancy a challenge as I am about to put a fist through my monitor!

TIA

$20 in DonationCoder credits to the first person to find them both (or I'll split it if you find one of them!)

Darwin:
Tried and failed  :( I'm ready to put my fist through my monitor after about 45 minutes - can't imagine what days must have been like. How much time do you have for this? Can you use interlibrary loans, or get photocopies, through the British Library?

Darwin:
PS these resources exist in libraries in HARD copy - I couldn't find any examples for sale or as downloadable electronic copy...

40hz:
You might try to contact The International Byron Society. Possibly someone there could point you in the right direction.

http://www.internationalbyronsociety.org/

Or try their American counterpart:

http://byronsociety.org/bsa/


Another possible source might be the archive for the Robert Schumann Society of Zwickau

http://www.zwickau.de/sprachen/english/e_visitenkarte/e_robert_schumann/e_rs_haus/e_archiv.htm

Located at:    

Hauptmarkt 5, 08056 Zwickau
   
Phone:    

+49 (0)375-215269 (general office)
+49 (0)375-81885116 (ticket office)
Fax:    

+49 (0)375-281101
email:    

[email protected]
Director:   
   

Dr. Thomas Synofzik
Archiving and Public Relations: Anette Müller
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Good luck. :)

Darwin:
Good idea, 40Hz the IBS forum is probably the best resource: http://www.internationalbyronsociety.org/phpBB2/index.php

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