J. A. HILLER: Die Jagd

J. A. HILLER: Die Jagd 29 January. Weimar Text by C. F. Weisse (founded on G. Collé’s La Partie de Chasse de Henri iv which, itself, is based upon Sedaine’s Le Roi et le Fermier, see 1762, and, further back, upon R. Dodsley’s The King and the Miller of Mansfield, 1736). Three acts. Hiller’s most popular work; given at St. Pölten 1 January 1771, Hamburg 14 February 1771, Berlin 18 June 1771, and all over Germany. In German also, Pressburg December 1775; Vienna, Kä. June 1776; St. Petersburg 25…