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unusual facts about Hugo von Hofmannsthal


Know thyself

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".


Antoni Lange

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

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.

Marie-Louise von Motesiczky

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.


see also

Hofmann von Hofmannsthal

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