C. M. VON WEBER: Das Waldmädchen

C. M. VON WEBER: Das Waldmädchen 24 November. Freiberg (Saxony) Text by C. von Steinsberg. Two acts. Weber’s first performed opera. Given also at Chemnitz 5 December 1800 (as Das stumme Waldmädchen) and Vienna, Leop. 4 December 1804 (as Das Mädchen im Spessarter Walde); it should be mentioned that the latter has been attributed to Wenzel Müller, in W. Krone ’s book on that composer (1906) as well as in F. Hadamowsky ’s Das Theater in der Wiener Leopoldstadt (1934). The opera was probably given…