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unusual facts about Martin Opitz


La Giuditta

Marco da Gagliano La Giuditta 1626; three-act opera (lost), libretto Andrea Salvadori, used as the basis for the Judith of Martin Opitz (1635).


1619 in poetry

Martin Opitz becomes the leader of the school of young poets in Heidelberg

Carl von Lemcke

Here another important piece was created for his series on the history of German poetry, From Opitz to Klopstock, as well as numerous biographies and monographs, especially on Dutch painters, for Robert Dohme's Kunst und Künstler and the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie.


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