Plays With Incidental Music - K

K

• Kätchen von Heilbronn (Heinrich von Kleist, 1808)

• 1905 music by Hans Pfitzner

• The King (Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson)

• music by Johan Halvorsen, Op. 19 (died 1935)

• King Arthur (J. Comyns Carr, 1895)

• music by Arthur Sullivan

• King Christian II (Adolf Paul, 1898)

• 1898 music by Jean Sibelius, Op. 27

• King Lear (William Shakespeare, c. 1605)

• music by Heinrich Schulz-Beuthen (died 1915; he later used this material in his Symphony No. 6 with men's chorus)
• 1920 music by Yuri Shaporin
• 1936 music by Cemal Reşit Rey
• 1940 music by Dmitri Shostakovich, Op. 58a
• 1958 music by Aram Khachaturian
• music by Franz Salmhofer (died 1975)

• King Svätopluk (Ivan Stodola, 1931)

• 1936 music by Eugen Suchoň

• Kirschblütenfest (Klabund)

• 1930 music by Ernst Toch

• Königskinder (The King's Children; Ernst Rosmer (Elsa Bernstein-Porges), 1895)

• 1897 music by Engelbert Humperdinck (he wrote an opera on the same subject in 1910)

• Kronbruden (The Crown Bride; August Strindberg, 1900)

• 1913 music by August Enna

• Kuolema (Death; Arvid Järnefelt, 1903, revised 1911)

• 1903 music by Jean Sibelius

• the music was revised in 1904, 1906 and 1911, and the original six numbers as presented in 1903 no longer exist
• Valse triste (originally Op. 44; since 1973 it has been numbered Op. 44, No. 1), one of Sibelius's most famous pieces, came from the 1904 revision
• Canzonetta, Op. 62a, was performed for the first time in 1911, but it had been written in 1906, in a different version, as Rondino der Liebenden, adapted from the original music
• Valse romantique, Op. 62b, was specially composed for the 1911 version of the play
• the remaining extant piece, Scene with Cranes, was a combining and revision of two numbers from the original score; it was written and performed in 1906, but it did not form part of the 1911 incidental music, and was published posthumously only in 1973, as Op. 44, No. 2.