Der Handschuh (Waterhouse) Der Handschuh (Waterhouse) Der Handschuh ("The Glove") is a composition by Graham Waterhouse. He wrote the setting of Friedrich Schiller's ballad for cello and speaking voice in 2005. It was published in 2007 in Heinrichshofen's Verlag. Graham Waterhouse composed "Der Handschuh" in 2005, as a kind of melodrama in the tradition of spoken narrative to instrumental accompaniment, such as ballads by Robert Schumann and Richard Strauss, a crucial scene of Weber's opera "Der Freischütz" and 20th century settings by Schoenberg, William Walton, Henze and Poulenc's L'Histoire de Babar, le petit éléphant. It is the composer's first major work for the
Wieland der Schmied (libretto) taste. He offered the libretto to Franz Liszt who also declined it. The libretto was eventually adapted by O. Schlemm for the composer Jan Levoslav Bella who composed an opera on it between 1880 and 1890. (See "Wieland der Schmied (opera)".) This was eventually produced in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia in 1926. Revivals were produced in Slovak, under the title "Kováč Wieland". Swanhilde is the daughter of a marriage between a mortal woman and a fairy king, who forbids his wife to ask about his origins; on her asking him he vanishes. Swanhilde and her sisters are however able to fly as