The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Dukas) piece was used in "Study No. 8" by Oskar Fischinger. The Dukas piece and Goethe poem were also, by way of the film " Fantasia", the inspiration of the 2010 Disney movie, "The Sorcerer's Apprentice", starring Nicolas Cage and Jay Baruchel. <score vorbis="1"> </score> The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Dukas) " The Sorcerer's Apprentice (French: "L'apprenti sorcier") is a symphonic poem in the key of F minor by the French composer Paul Dukas, written in 1897. Subtitled "Scherzo after a ballad by Goethe", the piece was based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's 1797 poem of the same name. By far the most
The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Ewers novel) The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Ewers novel) Der Zauberlehrling ("The Sorcerer's Apprentice") is a novel by Hanns Heinz Ewers, one of numerous works inspired in various ways by Goethe's poem of the same name. Ewers' first book, it was published in 1910. An English translation was published in America in 1927. It introduces the character of Frank Braun, who, like Ewers himself, is a writer, historian, philosopher, and world traveller with a decidedly Nietzschean morality. The story concerns Braun's attempts to manipulate a small cult of Evangelical Christians in a small Italian mountain village for his own financial gain, and the horrific