Feuersnot (Need for (or lack of) fire),[1] Op. 50, is a Singgedicht (sung poem) or opera in one act by Richard Strauss. The German libretto was written by Ernst von Wolzogen, based on J. Ketel's report "Das erloschene Feuer zu Audenaerde".[2] It was Strauss' second opera.
Thematically, the opera has been interpreted as a parody of Richard Wagner's idea of "redemption through love", with the character of Kunrad representing Strauss himself.[3] The conceptual framework for the opera stems from the Nietzschean perspective that had inspired Strauss in his tone poems Till Eulenspiegel and Also sprach Zarathustra.[4] Strauss and von Wolzogen shared the view that the source of inspiration was material not transcendental: in Feuersnot it is "redemption through sex" which relights the creative fire.
^The use of Feuersnot as title for this work where it indicates a lack of fire is a reversal of the word's normal meaning, blaze, conflagration.
^F. A. Brockhaus, (ed.) Johann Wilhelm Wolf [de], "Das erloschene Feuer zu Audenaerde" in Niederländische Sagen, Leipzig, 1843, pp. 492—495
^Morten Kristiansen, "Richard Strauss, Die Moderne, and the Concept of Stilkunst", The Musical Quarterly, 86, 689–749 (2002).
^Bryan Gilliam, "Strauss and the sexual body: the erotics of humour, philosophy and ego-assertion", The Cambridge companion to Richard Strauss, (Ed. Charles Youmans), Cambridge University Press, 2010 ISBN 978-0-521-72815-7, p. 271.
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