Alexander Ritter

"The Awakening Conscience" (1853), oil on canvas, 76.2 x 55.9 cm, of the painter William Holman Hunt, contemporary of Ritter (Tate Gallery, London)

Alexander Ritter

(1833-1896)

The composer Alexander (Sascha) Ritter was a author of vocal and instrumental music; was born in Narva on the 27th June 1833, the same year of the composers Bache, Borodin, Bradsky, Brahms, Brambach, Dorn, Hornstein, Mertke, Reichel, Rozkosný. He died in Monaco on the 12nd April 1896

project Ritter (Deeper articles)

Music examples MIDI ed Mp3 of Romanticism

OPERE

"Der faule Hans" was performed on the 15th of October 1885 in Monaco

"Wem der Krone?" was performed on the 8th of June 1890 in Weimar

LIEDER

"Primula Veris" (Liebliche Blume, bist du so früh schon wiedergekommen), op. 10 n. 1, text of Nikolaus Lenau (1802-1850)

"Belsatzar" (Die Mitternacht zog näher schon), text of Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)

"There is none of Beauty's daughters" (There be none of Beauty's daughters), text of George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron (1788-1824)

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