Liebesgeschichte der schönen Magelone und des Grafen Peter von Provence

Love story of beautiful Magalona and Count Peter of Provence is a narrative of the Romantic Ludwig Tieck, which appeared in 1797. It is based on a template, which was translated in 1527 by Veit Warbeck from a French romance of chivalry (see Magelone ). Ludwig Tieck wrote in 1803 still a drama to which remained unfinished.

Action ( narrative Ludwig Tieck )

The Count 's son Peter of Provence pulls away on the advice of a singer to know the world. In Naples, he impressed as an unknown knight in the tournament, the king's daughter Magalona. As the winner, he must sit across from her, they exchange secret messages via her nurse, he visits her and gives her three rings. Her father wants to marry a famous knight and is still a tournament, but Peter is victorious again. It provides Magelone to the test, says he has to leave. She flees with him. When she is tired, they rest in the forest. A raven steals the three rings, which finds Peter in the sleeper. When trying to fish it out of the water, Peter is driven in a boat on the sea. Gentiles bring him to the Sultan, where he is respected gardener. When his daughter Sulima wants to meet in secret with him, he flees and comes by fishing just to the meadow, where Magalona lives with a Shepherd. He told her everything, she reveals herself. You travel glad to his parents. In the meadow they build a summer palace.

Formal outline

Tieck adorns each of the 18 chapters with a song that is usually sung by Peter. The first half introduces the couple together ( after three chapters, he is away from home, after six he gave her the ring after nine is clear that they flee ), the second half apart and put back together (after twelve chapters, they are separated, after 15 he comes to Christians in the past they find themselves ). The new-found happiness at the end corresponds with the opening speech of the author, which makes up the first chapter, the transience of all happiness, but it is possible, which the author refers also to his revival of the tale.

Comparison with the original

According to Edward Mornin Veit Warbeck original text of Tieck in favor of the love story was cut, like many prayers deleted. The abandoned Magelone spins alone in front of the idyllic shepherd's hut, rather than to make a pilgrimage to Rome and to found a hospital and a church. The language is figurative in the original, Tieck often can speak moods by describing the environment.

Setting

Johannes Brahms set to music in his opus 33, entitled Fifteen Romances, Magalona songs for voice and piano Texts of Ludwig Tieck's work and dedicated the song to the singer and voice teacher Julius Stockhausen.

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