Ritter Toggenburg
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Sir Toggenburg is a ballad by Friedrich Schiller
, written in 1797, the year of his friendly ballad competition with Goethe. The text was used to inspire a Symphonic Poem of the same name by the New German composer and conductor Wendelin Weißheimer. Its premiere was given in Leipzig on 1 November 1862, though factions of the Leipzig public boycotted the concert, and the hall was only half full.
Friedrich Schiller
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller was a German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright. During the last seventeen years of his life , Schiller struck up a productive, if complicated, friendship with already famous and influential Johann Wolfgang von Goethe...
, written in 1797, the year of his friendly ballad competition with Goethe. The text was used to inspire a Symphonic Poem of the same name by the New German composer and conductor Wendelin Weißheimer. Its premiere was given in Leipzig on 1 November 1862, though factions of the Leipzig public boycotted the concert, and the hall was only half full.