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The guarantee is a ballad by Friedrich Schiller. It was founded in the summer of 1798 around the same time as the ballad The fight with the dragon and as this first released in Musenalmanach 1799.

Formation

The ballad is based on the story of Damon and Phintias that Schiller knew in the version of Hyginus Mythographus. For him, the friends Möros and Selinuntius hot.

On December 15, 1797 Schiller wrote in a letter to Goethe:

The very next day (16 December 1797) Goethe sent him the book you want:

Schiller came on back only with his letter of 28 August 1798

Under 31 August 1798 he wrote Goethe:

On September 4, 1798, he sent Goethe the fight with the dragon along with the guarantee and wrote:

Goethe replied on September 5, 1798

Setting

Franz Schubert set to music The Pledge 1815 song ( German directory 246) with a duration of about 16 minutes. In 1816 he began to process the material for an opera in three acts (D 435), which, however, remained unfinished. For some unknown reason, the manuscript breaks off in the third act after only two prepared pieces of music.

Literature / Web Links

  • Schiller 's life for the farther among its readers of Karl Hoffmeister. Supplemented and edited by Henry Viehoff. Third part. Stuttgart 1846 Third Chapter. ballads
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Valentin Schmidt (1787-1831): Ballads and Romances of the German poet citizens Stollberg and Schiller (also: Paperback German romances ). Berlin 1827 page 225 ff
  • Goethe / Schiller correspondence 1797
  • Goethe / Schiller correspondence 1798
  • Karl Moritz: German ballads. Analysis for the German lessons. Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 1972, ISBN 3-506-72814-8.
  • TG Waidelich: August Mayer's " guarantee " in relation to other musical and dramatic adaptations of Schiller ballad [ ... ], in: Weber Studies, vol 8, ed. by M. Gervink, F. Heidlberger and F. Ziegler, Mainz, 2007, pp. 15-36.
  • The guarantee in spoken form under free license? / I (4.36 MB, OGG)
  • Illustrations to Schiller's ballad The guarantee from the Viennese publishing Trentsensky, 1825

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