Appendix I: Elektra Chronicle
ABBREVIATIONS
| Erken | Günter Erken, Hofmannsthal Chronik: Beitrag zu einer Biographie. Unpublished (ca. 1963). Willi Schuh Estate. |
| von Schuch | Friedrich von Schuch, Richard Strauss, Ernst von Schuch, und Dresdens Oper. Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel, 1953. |
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Hofmannsthal-- Nostitz | Hugo von Hofmannsthal--Helene von Nostitz: Briefwechsel. Ed. O. Nostitz. Frankfurt: Fischer, 1965. |
| Huesmann | Heinrich Huesmann, Welttheater Reinhardt. Munich: Prestel,. 1983. |
1905
| 21 Oct. | 1st performance of the 2nd production of Hofmannsthal's |
| Elektra in Berlin, now at the Deutsches Theater. Willi | |
| Schuh claims Strauss saw it that day, although 'Barbier | |
| von Bagdad' is written in his Schreibkalender. [RSA] | |
| 7 Nov. |
3rd and last performance of the Elektra production at the Deutsches Theater. [Huesmann] |
1906
| 2 Feb. |
Hofmannsthal in Berlin for premiére of his Oedipus und der Sphinx at the Deutsches Theater. According to Günther Erken, Strauss and Hofmannsthal met that day and discussed the possibility of an Elektra opera. [Huesmann and Erken] |
| 7 Mar. |
Hofmannsthal wants to know whether Strauss is still interested in the Elektra project. [Briefivechsel/Correspon- dence] |
| 11 Mar. | Strauss is still interested and has made cuts in the text for |
| his own use. He expresses some worry that Elektra and |
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Publication information:
Book title: Richard Strauss's Elektra.
Contributors: Bryan Gilliam - Author.
Publisher: Oxford University.
Place of publication: Oxford.
Publication year: 1996.
Page number: 236.
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