Felix Cherniavsky - Research Notes

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Felix Cherniavsky - Research Notes

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DO Forschungsinstitut für Musiktheater Universität Bayreuth D - 8656 Schloß Thurnau Telefon 09228/669 April 20 1984 c Forschungsinstitut für Musiktheater · 8656 Schloß Thurnau ooo Felix Cherniavsky Phd 8919 146th Street Edmonton Alberta T5R OV7 Canada Dear Felix Cherniavsky the 0 that I hope that is of use for you . At least the date of the premiere of " Vision Salome " is fixed . I tried to find thatd bút always thought myself it was already in 1903. I even argued once with somebody whose name I got . He was reading a paper on Salome anees in Jerusalem . There was a congress on the Bible in dance . He asked me to find out the real date , but I could not . Whom Maud Allan ment with " Prinzessin " is not clear . Montenuovo was was Fürst , so his wife should be " Fürstin " and not Prinzessin ! And I never thought that she ( Montenuovo's wife ) was very influencial . Another " Fürstin " was , she was Pauline Metternich , perhaps Maud Allan mixed up these titles . But there is still an very old dancer who could answer these question . When I was working on Isadora in Vienna I found a veryfureycle in Neues Wiener Journal ( that is the gossippaper ) with comments on the " barefootdancers " by members of the courtoperaballet , But there was aslo a comment by Maud Allan , who at that time was rehearsing at the operahouse . That confused me a lot at that time , I could not find out why she danced there . Now I know . Mahler had a faible for modern dance . Or perhaps it is more correct to say he hated classical ballet as it was practised at the court op a , he preferred the free dancers , he evencast himself such a dancer for the part of Fenella in Auber's opera . This caused a scandal . Comments by Mahler on Maud Allan are not known to me . I am going to send you tharticle with the Allan interview , but I have to find it ! ( I am working in Germany , I am always going back an t 1