In 1902, Hugo von Hofmannsthal has his 16th-century alter ego in his letter to Francis Bacon mention a book he intended to call "Nosce te ipsum".
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In some points The Hour is similar to the drama A Dream Play written by August Strindberg in 1901 and The Woman without a Shadow written by Hugo von Hofmannsthal in 1919.
Josephslegende (The Legend of Joseph) Op. 63, is a ballet in one act for the Ballets Russes based on the story of Potiphar's Wife, with a libretto by Hofmannsthal and Kessler and music by Richard Strauss.
They had donated many of the art-works in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, and, in their palatial salon opposite the opera, Hugo von Hofmannsthal had read his first poems.
Lady Frances von Hofmannsthal née Armstrong-Jones (born 1979, ), a daughter of the 1st Earl of Snowdon ∞ Rodolphe von Hofmannsthal, great-grandson of Hugo von Hofmannsthal