The Poem
Adam Mickiewicz took some elements of the historical Konrad von Wallenrode for his 1828 patriotic narrative poem, Konrad Wallenrod, in which Wallenrode is portrayed as a Lithuanian who deliberately leads the Knights into defeat.
The poem was later twice made into an opera; I Lituani by Italian composer Amilcare Ponchielli in 1874, and Konrad Wallenrod by Polish composer Władysław Żeleński in 1885.
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