Recitations and Music Versions
Goethe wrote his epilogue to the Song of the Bell shortly after Schiller’s death in order to have it read by the actress Amalie Becker at the conclusion of a memorial celebration in the Lauchstädt Theater. After the three last acts of Maria Stuart, the Song of the Bell was recited with distributed roles. Other performances of the Bell took place especially in schools in the 19th century. In Hamburg the Bell was portrayed by local people in so-called living pictures on the occasion of Schiller Year 1859. Among the various music versions are Andreas Romberg: Das Lied von der Glocke, op. 111 (Romberg was a colleague of Beethoven, who set to music Schiller’s ode An die Freude (Ode to Joy)) and Max Bruch: Das Lied von der Glocke, op. 45 (Bruch’s work has been called a musical “Bible for the man in the street”).
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