Word: christopher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great poet Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller conceived the character of Luisa Miller, made her the unhappy heroine of his play Kabale und Liebe. Italian Poet Salvatore Cammarano fashioned the opera libretto from the Schiller piece, aptly labeled the acts Love, Intrigue, Poison. The scene is in the Tyrol. Luisa, a beautiful peasant, loves Rodolfo who turns out to be the son of the village's haughty overlord. He would forbid their marriage, arrest Luisa and her doting father. But Rodolfo, Hamletwise, knows of the murder which won his father his titles and his wealth, threatens him with exposure...
Died. Rudolf Christoph Eucken, 80, "dean of German philosophers," professor at Jena University, winner of the 1908 Nobel Prize for literature; at Jena, Germany, of pneumonia...