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
Der Zar lässt sich photographieren in a dramatic work. It was Weill's first best-selling recording. Notes Sources Zeitoper: Der Zar lässt sich fotographieren: Georg Kaiser: See entry: Georg Kaiser Der Zar lässt sich photographieren Der Zar lässt sich photographieren ("The Tsar Has his Photograph Taken"') is an opera buffa in one act by Kurt Weill, op. 21. The German libretto was written by Georg Kaiser, and Weill composed the music in 1927. It is a Zeitoper, a genre of music theatre which used contemporary settings and characters, satiric plots which often include technology and machinery. Musically the Zeitoper genre tends to be eclectic and borrow