Melusina by Kreutzer, C., 토 07 1월 2023, 에서 (2022/2023), 감독 Gregor Horres,, 지휘자 Claudio Novati, Musiktheater, Linz, Austria

After Fidelio , Ludwig van Beethoven worked on another opera project for a long time. None other than Franz Grillparzer had written the text for him. But Beethoven never seriously tackled the composition. In the end, it was Conradin Kreutzer, who is best known today for his “Hobellied” from Ferdinand Raimund 's Der Verschuzzer , who set Grillparzer's Melusina libretto to music. This interesting constellation of Beethoven, Grillparzer and Kreutzer, who was also known during his lifetime as a virtuoso on the panharmonicon (a precursor of the harmonium), inspired the musicologist Alexander Doent to write Kreutzer's Melusina with original compositions by Beethoven and to arrange the orchestral part for organ and chamber ensemble. This very special version of the story about the highly romantic love of the water nymph Melusina for the knight Raimund can now be experienced for the first time in the BlackBox.