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Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

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31: 260: 338:. Despite her heavy official responsibilities, she cultivated intellectual interests, especially music. She continued to take lessons in composition and keyboard playing from the leading musician in Weimar. Amalia von Helvig, a German-Swedish artist and writer, later became part of her court. She hired Christoph Martin Wieland, a poet and translator of William Shakespeare, to educate her son. . On 3 September 1775, her son reached his 1116: 350:
As a patron of the arts, Anna Amalia drew many of the most eminent people in Germany to Weimar. She gathered a group of scholars, poets and musicians, professional and amateur, for lively discussion and music-making at the Wittum palace. In this ‘court of the muses’, as Wilhelm Bode called it, the
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Anna Amalia herself played a significant part in bringing together the poetry of 'Weimar Classicism'. Johann Adam Hiller's most successful Singspiel, Die Jagd (the score of which is dedicated to the duchess), received its first performance in Weimar in 1770, and Weimar was also the scene of the
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notable première on 28 May 1773 of the ‘first German opera’, Wieland's Alceste in the setting by Anton Schweitzer. Anna Amalia continued the tradition of the Singspiel in later years with performances in the amateur court theatre of her own compositions to texts by Goethe.
165: 398:, in the manner of Hiller and Schweitzer, combining features of song and of arioso. In 2021-2023, further works of Anna Amalia were discovered by the academic Stephen Husarik in the collection of 1332: 509: 215:(24 October 1739 – 10 April 1807), was a German princess and composer. She became the duchess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach by marriage, and was also regent of the states of 334:
During Karl August's minority she administered the affairs of the duchy with notable prudence, strengthening its resources and improving its position in spite of the troubles of the
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from 1758 to 1775. She transformed her court and its surrounding into the most influential cultural center of Germany. Her invitation of
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One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
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Anna Amalia was a notable composer. The majority of her works belong stylistically to the
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and they had two sons. Ernst August died in 1758 leaving her regent for their infant son,
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Anna Amalia was well-educated as befitted a princess. She studied music with
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Ernst August II Konstantin, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
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Free scores by Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
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Symphony (2 oboes, 2 flutes, 2 violins and double bass) 1765
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Ancestors of Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
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Ferdinand Albert I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern
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Das Jahrmarktsfest zu Plundersweilern (text by Goethe)
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PRNewsWire: Goethe's forbidden love for Anna Amalia
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Ferdinand Albert II, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
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Index


Johann Ernst Heinsius
Saxe-Weimar
Saxe-Eisenach
Wolfenbüttel
Weimar
Ernest Augustus II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
Issue
Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
Prince Frederick Ferdinand Constantin
House
Brunswick-Bevern
Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
Princess Philippine Charlotte of Prussia
Saxe-Weimar
Saxe-Eisenach
Abel Seyler
theatre company
Weimar Classicism
Wieland
Goethe
Herder
Schiller

Wolfenbüttel
Karl I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
Princess Philippine Charlotte of Prussia
Frederick William I of Prussia
Sophia Dorothea of Hanover

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