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  1. Des Simplicius Simplicissimus Jugend is a German-language opera by Karl Amadeus Hartmann to a libretto by Hermann Scherchen, Wolfgang Petzet and the composer after Jakob von Grimmelhausen's picaresque novel Simplicius Simplicissimus.

  2. Feb 21, 2017 · Helen Donath - Simplicius Simplicissimus - Hartmann. medici.tv. 379K subscribers. 22. 1.4K views 6 years ago. Full documentary here http://ow.ly/uMCc307Pubw Subscribe to our channel for more...

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  3. 20th-century composer Karl Amadeus Hartmann wrote the anti-war opera Simplicius Simplicissimus for chamber orchestra in the mid-1930s, with contributions to the libretto by his teacher Hermann Scherchen.

  4. *Simplicius Simplicissimus* is loosely based on H J Chr Grimmelshausens 1669 allegory. This was set in the Thirty Years War, a defining trauma in German history, barely appreciated in the English-speaking world. “Anno Domini 1618 wohnten 12 millionen in Deutschland” goes Hartmann’s introduction. “Da kam der grosse Kreig”.

  5. Sep 8, 2014 · Hartmann's opera Simplicius Simplicissimus dates originally from between 1934 and 1936. Based on Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen's 17th century novel about the 30 Years War, the opera was designed to explicitly satirise the Nazis.

  6. I wonder if Karl Amadeus Hartmann saw something of himself in the young Simplicius Simplicissimus, the eponymous protagonist of his three-scene chamber opera of 1936.

  7. May 19, 2004 · STUTTGART— Karl Amadeus Hartmann's opera "Simplicius Simplicissimus" is a protest against World War II written before the war had even begun. Hartmann was 28 and a promising composer when...