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    occupation of Goethe's last years. The original 1808 German title page of Goethe's play read simply: "Faust. / Eine Tragödie" ("Faust. / A Tragedy")...
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    soul, and Faust will be eternally enslaved. During the term of the bargain, Faust makes use of Mephistopheles in various ways. In Goethe's drama, and...
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    Wolfgang von Goethe. It was published in 1832, the year of Goethe's death. Only part of Faust I is directly related to the legend of Johann Faust, which dates...
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    play Faust et Marguerite, in turn loosely based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust, Part One. It debuted at the Théâtre Lyrique on the Boulevard du Temple...
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    England, Goethe's great disciple was Thomas Carlyle, who wrote the essays "Faustus" (1822), "Goethe's Helena" (1828), "Goethe" (1828), "Goethe's Works"...
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    tragedy's first part]) is the first part of the tragic play Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and is considered by many as the greatest work of German...
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    Wolfgang von Goethe's closet drama Faust (1808), Hector Berlioz's musical composition La damnation de Faust (premiered 1846), and Franz Liszt's Faust Symphony...
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    6 December 1846. The French composer was inspired by a translation of Goethe's dramatic poem Faust and produced a musical work that, like the masterpiece on which...
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    Mephistopheles (category Characters in Goethe's Faust)
    Encyclopedia Britannica. 20 July 1998. Snider, Denton Jaques (1886). Goethe's Faust: A commentary. Sigma. pp. 132–133. "The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar...
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  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's drama, Faust. The symphony was premiered in Weimar on 5 September 1857, for the inauguration of the Goethe–Schiller Monument...
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  • Op. 33: 2nd Movement "Quasi-Faust" (1847) Robert Schumann's Scenes from Goethe's Faust (completed 1853) Franz Liszt's Faust Symphony (1854–57) and Mephisto...
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    Scenes from Goethe's Faust (Szenen aus Goethes Faust) is a musical-theatrical work by composer Robert Schumann. The work has been described as the height...
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  • Sovremennik magazine in the same year. The story draws inspiration from Goethe's Faust, both as a tangible book around which the narrative revolves, and thematically...
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  • inspiration for Victor Frankenstein. German playwright Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust, Part Two (1832) famously features an alchemically-created homunculus...
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    traditions of the legendary tale of Faust as well as on Goethe's classic 1808 version. Ufa wanted Ludwig Berger to direct Faust, as Murnau was engaged with Variety;...
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  • Faust (Russian: Фауст) is a 2011 Russian film directed by Alexander Sokurov. Set in the 19th century, it is a free interpretation of the Faust legend and...
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  • Eternal feminine (category Goethe's Faust)
    hell into the picture. But Goethe's Enlightenment needed a quite different abreaction." One of Goethe's purposes in writing Faust, May says, "was to explore...
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    Gretchen am Spinnrade (category Music based on Goethe's Faust)
    Schubert using the text from Part One, scene 15 of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust. With "Gretchen am Spinnrade" and some 600 other songs for voice and...
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  • by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Berman uses Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust as a literary interpretation of modernization, through the processes...
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    Schröer's book "Goethe and Love" (1884) appeared, translated by David W. Wood. * [1] K. J. Schröer published his edition of Goethe's Faust, parts 1 and 2...
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  • Faust, a character in Jazz and Faust (2002 graphic adventure game) Goethe's Faust (Part I, 1806; Part II, 1831), a work by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe...
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    Woland, Bulgakov draws heavily from the figure of Mephistopheles in Goethe's Faust, a connection made explicit by the use of an epigraph from the poem...
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  • Franziska (play) (category Works based on Goethe's Faust)
    presents the heroine as a "female Faust" by way of conscious parody and commentary on episodes from Goethe's Faust. Franziska is a restless young woman...
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  • piece, Newman said that he was first inspired to create a work based on Goethe's Faust in the 1970s, after a first reading of the play. However, during a 2014...
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  • 2059, it is a contemporary interpretation of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's 1808 Faust and the first film directly based on both parts of the tragedy. It...
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  • compositions in a sequence of scenes whose subjects are loosely based on Goethe’s 1808 play Faust Part One and Part Two. In dealing with the human drama, the paintings...
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  • William Barnard Clarke (category Translators of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
    of Faust, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's masterwork of German literature. The volume which passes under Clarke's name, Translation of Goethe's Faust Parts...
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  • major character in Goethe's Faust (1808) has this name. In German, the Gretchenfrage [de] ("question by Gretchen"), derived from Faust, is an idiom for...
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  • The Black Halo (category Music based on Goethe's Faust)
    2005, through Steamhammer Records. It is a concept album inspired by Goethe's Faust. Continuing the story introduced in Epica (2003), it is the second and...
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  • from Faust (Schubert) (German: Szene aus ‘Faust’) — composition by Franz Schubert Scenes from Goethe's Faust (German: Szenen aus Goethes Faust) – composition...
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