Hofmannsthal

Von Hofmannsthal is best remembered now as the librettist of Richard Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier.

Hugo von Hofmannsthal was a literary prodigy whom even his sharpest Viennese critics considered a great writer.

The scene painted by Hofmannsthal might, on the whole, be used as a setting for "Countess Mizzie."

Von Hofmannsthal's figure of the deserted lady is not a particularly moving one.

And like Hofmannsthal's libretto, the score remains a superficial and formless thing.