Friedrich Schiller
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Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (November 10, 1759 in Marbach, Württemberg – May 9, 1805 in Weimar), usually known as Friedrich Schiller, was a German poet, philosopher, historian, and dramatist.
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[change] Life
[change] Works
[change] Plays
- Die Räuber (The Robbers) (1781)
- Kabale und Liebe (Intrigue and Love) (1784)
- Don Carlos, Infant von Spanien (Don Carlos) (1787)
- Wallenstein (1800)
- Die Jungfrau von Orleans (The Maid of Orleans) (1801)
- Maria Stuart (Mary Stuart) (1801)
- Turandot (1802)
- Die Braut von Messina (1803)
- Wilhelm Tell (William Tell) (1804)
- Demetrius (unfinished at his death)
[change] Poems
- An die Freude or Ode to Joy (1785) which became the basis for the fourth movement of Beethoven's ninth symphony
- The Artists
- The Cranes of Ibykus
- The Bell
- Columbus
- Hope
- Pegasus in Harness
- The Glove
- Nänie which Brahms set to music
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