Grete Wiesenthal
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Grete Wiesenthal was a member of the corps de ballet of the Hofoper in Vienna. Gustav Mahler
was responsible for giving her the role of 'Fenella' in La Muette de Portici
in 1907. This caused a great scandal and eventually led to Mahler's resignation, as in doing so, he had undermined the ballet master, Hassreiter.
Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler was a late-Romantic Austrian composer and one of the leading conductors of his generation. He was born in the village of Kalischt, Bohemia, in what was then Austria-Hungary, now Kaliště in the Czech Republic...
was responsible for giving her the role of 'Fenella' in La Muette de Portici
La muette de Portici
La muette de Portici originally called Masaniello, ou La muette de Portici, is an opera in five acts by Daniel Auber, with a libretto by Germain Delavigne, revised by Eugène Scribe...
in 1907. This caused a great scandal and eventually led to Mahler's resignation, as in doing so, he had undermined the ballet master, Hassreiter.
Ballets
- 1908: Der Geburtstag der Infantin (Music by Franz SchrekerFranz SchrekerFranz Schreker was an Austrian composer, conductor, teacher and administrator. Primarily a composer of operas, his style is characterized by aesthetic plurality , timbral experimentation, strategies of extended tonality and...
) - 1916: Die Biene (Music by Clemens von Franckenstein)
- 1930: Der Taugenichts von Wien (Music by Franz SalmhoferFranz SalmhoferFranz Salmhofer was an Austrian composer, clarinetist, conductor and poet. He studied the clarinet, composition and musicology in Vienna and was a pupil of Franz Schreker and Franz Schmidt...
)
Sources
- Grete Wiesenthal: Der Aufstieg. 1919 (Autobiography)
- R. Huber-Wiesenthal: Die Schwestern Wiesenthal. 1934
- Ingeborg Prenner: Grete Wiesenthal. Die Begründerin eines neuen Tanzstils. Phil. Diss. Wien 1950.
- Die neue Körpersprache – Grete Wiesenthal und ihr Tanz. (Ausstellungskatalog: Historisches Museum der Stadt Wien, 18. Mai 1985 - 23. Februar 1986). Eigenverlag der Museen der Stadt Wien 1985.
- Leonard M. Fiedler und Martin Lang (Hrsg.): Grete Wiesenthal. Die Schönheit der Sprache des Körpers im Tanz. Residenz Verlag, Salzburg und Wien 1985.
- Gabriele Brandstetter und Gunhild Oberzaucher-Schüller (Hrsg.): Mundart der Wiener Moderne. Der Tanz der Grete Wiesenthal. Kieser, München 2009.