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	Faust - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Faust or Faustus is the protagonist of a popular German tale that has been used as the basis for many different fictional works.
		Franz Liszt was fascinated by the Faust legend, particularly with the character of Mephistopheles.
		Felix Faust is a magical supervillain in the universe of DC Comics.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Faust (1376 words)

	Faust - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Faust is the protagonist of a popular German tale that has been used as the basis for many different fictional works.
		It concerns the fate of a learned gentleman, Faust, who summons the Devil, who in the tale is usually called Mephistopheles, and offers to sell him his soul if the Devil will serve him for a given period of time.
		Johann Georg Faust (approximately 1480-1540) was a German alchemist who was born in the village of Knittlingen, Württemberg.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Faust (514 words)

	Faust -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Faust is also the name of a (A person of German nationality) German (additional info and facts about krautrock) krautrock band, (additional info and facts about Faust (band)) Faust (band).
		Faust is the protagonist of a popular (A person of German nationality) German tale that has been used as the basis for many different (additional info and facts about fictional) fictional works.
		Faust is also the (A person of German nationality) German (A unit of language that native speakers can identify) word for fist, although the name "Faust" may be related to (A native or inhabitant of Italy) Italian "Fausto" rather than the German word.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/f/fa/faust.htm (1774 words)

	Faust (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Faust is the protagonist of a popular tale that has been used as the basis for many different fictional works.
		It concerns the fate of a learned gentleman, Johann Faust, who summons the Devil, who in the tale is usually called Mephistopheles, and offers to sell him his soul if the Devil will serve him for a given period of time.
		Faust was put to death in Staufen, Germany, Breisgau in 1540.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/f/fa/faust.html (525 words)

	Metropolitan Opera International Radio Broadcast Information Center - 2004-05 Broadcasts
		Faust, Rector Magnificus of the university, is at work on an experiment in his laboratory one morning as his pupil Wagner enters to say Three Students from Cracow have appeared unannounced to give Faust a book on fl magic, Clavis Astartis Magica (The Key to Astarte's Magic).
		Faust asks for all his wishes to be granted, to have all knowledge and the power of genius.
		Faust changes the daylight to night so he can perform his enchantments, of which the first, at the Duchess' request, is an apparition of King Solomon and Queen Balkis; their resemblance to Faust and the Duchess is apparent.
	www.operainfo.org /broadcast/operaSynopsis.cgi?id=41&language=1 (1137 words)

	Doktor Faust - Ferruccio Busoni (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Faust's living/working area is at the center; a space that becomes a chapel is at stage-left, glass walls at stage right are altered with lighting and accessories for other effects.
		Faust backs off -- "the human spirit is greater than Hell's offerings." But Mephistopheles reminds Faust that his creditors are after him and that the brother of a girl he seduced is after him as well.
		The subsequent appearance and murder of the aggrieved brother, dressed in the armor of a crusader, and the grand courtiers of the Duke and Duchess of Parma dressed in formal evening wear and examining cases of jewels, injects a mounting sense of the surreal and the dreamlike.
	www.culturevulture.net /Opera2/DoktorFaust.htm (638 words)

	Faust on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Spiess and Marlowe represent Faust as a scoundrel justly punished with eternal damnation, but Lessing instead saw in him the symbol of man's heroic striving for knowledge and power and therefore as worthy of praise and salvation.
		Lessing's view of Faust as seeker was continued by Goethe in one of the greatest dramatic poems ever written.
		Annie Faust is owner and operator of Annie Wrap in Southfield, Michigan.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/f/faust.asp (852 words)

	Guardian \| New York Faust a triumphant failure
		The words "neglected masterpiece" have hung around the neck of Ferrucio Busoni's opera Doktor Faust for so long that it is reasonable to ask whether they are truly appropriate.
		And it is inescapably dark-toned, since Faust is sung by a baritone and there is no major female role in the opera.
		In the end, the judgment on Doktor Faust is as paradoxical as the work.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4119719-103686,00.html (479 words)

	Doktor Faust SFO 6/20/04 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		OK, the old Faust does make a pact with Mephistopheles and there is a soldier whose sister has been wronged by Faust; otherwise it’s a different world.
		Faust’s student, Wagner, is first seen working away at a laptop, occasionally interrupting his work to use a cell phone.
		At the end of this scene, Faust’s studio is surrounded by his creditors, but Mephistopheles kills them all instantly at Faust’s request, convincing Faust that here is the answer to his prayers.
	www.globalinfo.com /~dmbrg6192/04-06_SF/DrFaust.html (1321 words)

	Faust 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Even Ferruccio Busoni, perhaps the most literary-oriented opera composer of all time, found Goethe’s Faust to be too daunting as the text for an opera and fashioned his own libretto for Doktor Faust out of an unusual amalgam of Nietzschean philosophy and the traditional Faust puppet-play.
		In Goethe’s drama Faust becomes smitten with Gretchen only because she is the first woman he sees after having been given a love potion by the Witches.
		The chorus, performing a fugato on the dies irae of the Requiem mass, is used throughout except for a short portion at the very beginning of the scene.
	www.musicweb-international.com /brian/faust_1htm.htm (1344 words)

	Faust Legends
		Johann Faustus was born in Roda in the province of Weimar, of God-fearing parents.
		Another time Faust left Boxberg Castle at a quarter past eleven in order to be at a banquet in Heilbronn at the last strike of twelve o'clock.
		Doktor Faust: Ein Tanzpoem, nebst kuriosen Berichten über Teufel, Hexen und Dichtkunst (1851).
	www.pitt.edu /~dash/faust.html (2775 words)

	All Fired Up
		Doktor Faust is a tough challenge, for audiences as much as for any company bold enough to produce it, but the rewards are great.
		Busoni was determined to portray Faust as the ultimate questing hero, a man who seeks salvation not through God or the devil but through a belief in the superhuman will of a thinking, creative individual.
		In the moving final scene, the dying Faust, in one last mighty act of will, transfers his soul to his dead son, who rises from the ground with a flowering branch in his hand and strides into the night, carrying Faust's vision toward a realm beyond good and evil.
	www.newyorkmetro.com /nymetro/arts/music/classical/reviews/4314 (935 words)

	2002 Pulitzer Prizes-CRITICISM, Works
		Mussbach interprets "Doktor Faust" as a hallucination, which allows him to conjure up a surrealistic vision that doesn't square with the score's academic solidity.
		When James Levine pulled out of conducting "Doktor Faust," pleading sciatica, the opera lost the man who brought it to the Met and who might have made a more powerful case for the score.
		Faust is alternately defeated and manically self-satisfied, but Hampson never abandoned his diplomatic equipoise.
	www.pulitzer.org /year/2002/criticism/works/011001.html (593 words)

	Metropolitan Opera International Radio Broadcast Information Center - 2004-05 Broadcasts
		They ask for words of wisdom from Faust, who declares, "Nothing is proven, and nothing is provable." He cites Martin Luther, whereupon the Catholic and Protestant students start to argue.
		Faust apostrophizes the vision and tries to embrace her, but she eludes him.
		Wagner, who has succeeded Faust as Rector and now lives in Faust's former house, next door, is escorted there by sycophantic students and bids them good-night.
	www.operainfo.org /broadcast/operaSynopsis.cgi?id=41&language=1 (1137 words)

	BUSONI'S FLASHY 'FAUST'
		The legend of Faust is an evergreen subject, but I suspect it may be even more compelling to creative artists than to the rest of us.
		Faust is not a subject for the faint of heart, and no one could ever accuse Busoni of lacking ambition.
		In other words, the catchall quality of "Doktor Faust" -- its willingness to pursue any formal and musical means necessary to get to the heart of its subject -- is essentially a reflection of its creator's own outlook.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/05/30/PKGQL6Q2LN1.DTL&type=printable (926 words)

	KQED \| Public TV: Spark: San Francisco Opera
		"Doktor Faust," which is co-produced with the Stuttgart Opera, brings some of the more avant-garde aspects of the new European opera to American shores.
		At 98 feet across at its widest point, the L-shaped set for "Doktor Faust" occupies the entire stage, reaching 60 feet upstage and standing 48 feet tall.
		The floor, walls and ceiling of the set, an area of 10,000 square feet, required approximately 200 sheets of plywood, all of which were hand-painted by scenic artists to the specifications of the design.
	www.kqed.org /spark/artists-orgs/sfopera.jsp (649 words)

	EDWARD DENT - BUSONI - DOCTOR FAUST - DOKTOR FAUST
		Doctor Faust belonged to Gerda alone; it belonged to her so intimately and so completely that it would have been impossible to make any one else understand the place which it held in his life, in that life which he had always tried to plan out with such rigorous forethought.
		Faust lays the corpse of the child on the ground before him and covers it with his cloak; then he throws his girdle on the ground and steps within its magic circle.
		Faust at his last end is conscious of being liberated from God and Devil alike; he will set mankind free from the eternal quarrel which has been handed on from generation to generation.
	www.rodoni.ch /busoni/faustaggiunte/dentdoktor.html (7153 words)

	Amazon.com: Busoni - Doktor Faust / Henschel · Begley · Janis · Hollop · Kerl · Fischer-Dieskau · Lyon Opera · ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Doktor Faust is, after all, the magnificently all-involving summa of this brilliant, eccentric, but neglected composer.
		Like Goethe, Busoni saw his preoccupation with the Faust legend turn into a lifelong obsession, though his own interpretation actually has very little (directly) to do with Goethe's, drawing instead on the original puppet plays and on his own postromantic view of Faust as the archetypal alienated artist.
		Unfortunately, Busoni died before work on Doktor Faust was completed, the conclusion of the work was composed by Philip Jarnach, a pupil of Busoni's who did not have all of the composer's sketches.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00002DFH6?v=glance (2315 words)

	THE FAUST LEGEND IN MUSIC
		The original music compilation sought to base the Faust compositions on a known text or representation, from the medieval era's German puppet plays to the well-known works of Goethe and Marlowe, and on to contemporary literature.
		Faust, or Faust I, or Faust I, II = Goethe's Faust
		Gounod's Faust; Libretto: Hector Crémieux and Adolphe Jaime
	www.carolinaclassical.com /faust (896 words)

	San Diego Magazine - covering San Diego entertainment, fashion, events and news.
		Doktor Faust, though blatantly patched together from any number of pre-existing pieces Busoni recycled into his opera, really must be seen to be enjoyed.
		The devils Faust conjures up are mundane fiends -- pizza and UPS delivery men among others -- with the ultimate demon, Mephistopheles (tenor Chris Merritt in one of his most inspired characterizations to date) little more than a decrepit transient carrying a paper market bag.
		This Doktor Faust is a marvelous instance of a director's concept saving the opera from itself - making the whole experience interesting and meaningful for a contemporary audience.
	www.sandiego-online.com /opera/2004summer1.shtml (1685 words)

	Dr Matej Faust GRADISEK (1776-1837) - PHOTOTHÈQUE HOMÉOPATHIQUE présentée par Homéopathe International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In 1806, 6 october, Faust arrived in Ljubljana (Laibach) at hospital "Barmherziger Bruder".
		Faustus must work as a private medicine doctor and finally 1824, 22 may was pensioned off 1825 Faustus made own hospital haus-Faustulanum and became as a hermit doctor.
		"Doktor Faust", in 1821 writing own Materia medica which is lost, in this year have a lot of patients : 9538 persons.
	www.homeoint.org /photo/g/gradisek.htm (197 words)

	The Scottish Poetry Library - Poets
		'Doktor Faust in Rose Street' presents Faust long after Mephistopheles has claimed his soul, again adrift in the present, but now lacking the power to alter his circumstances.
		Garioch's conceit is that, for Faust, this place is worse than hell, and at one level the scene presents an old man in a world which has changed beyond his recognition.
		The poem's satire of the present is superficial and token: the real object of the satire is Faust himself, unable to cope with the chaotic, living present.
	sites.scran.ac.uk /scottish_poetry_library/poets_robertgarioch_commentary_anoteonthetitle.html (685 words)

	ttgapers.com store - Busoni - Doktor Faust / Henschel · Begley · Janis · Hollop · Kerl · Fischer-Dieskau · Lyon ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Doktor Faust: Prologue I: Ein einzelner blieb (Faust) - Kent Nagano
		Doktor Faust: Prologue I: Credo in unum Deum (Chor) - Kent Nagano
		Doktor Faust: Symphonisches Intermezzo: In modo d'una Sarabanda - Kent Nagano
	www.ttgapers.com /ttStore-index2-asin-B00002DFH6.html (2174 words)

	The Faust Tradition: Syllabus
		Although this drama is not known in its entirety, Lessing’s Faust is repeatedly named as having an important place in the history and development of the Faust motif.
		Characterize the conflict(s) or contradiction(s) within Faust as a result of his dealings with Gretchen (see especially the scene “Wald und Höhle”).
		Compare the first scene of Faust II (“Anmutige Gegend”) with the first scene of Faust I (“Nacht”).
	www.csuchico.edu /~goulding/faust/faustsyllabus.htm (1441 words)

	Doktor Faust - by Ferruccio Busoni (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		With his newly acquired fl magic, Faust commits murder and seduces the Dutchess of Parma, Der Herzog.
		All the people Faust has hurt return to torment him until he dies and his soul is damned to Hell.
		A soldier who is the brother of a girl Faust had seduced.
	www.stageagent.com /cb/info.pl/ti/doktor_faust (171 words)

	Classics Today.com - Your Online Guide to Classical Music
		This is poor conducting, plain and simple, insensitive to the demands of music that needs all the liveliness it can get to overcome its defects: a tendency to monochrome orchestral colors and rhythmic monotony.
		The Two Studies from Docktor Faust go much better, being at least relatively normal in duration (though this is still the droopiest Cortège around; even Sinopoli, no speed demon, beats Wong by about a minute).
		In the Turandot Suite and Doctor Faust music, Gielen (on Vox) is even less expensive and much more naturally recorded.
	www.classicstoday.com /review.asp?ReviewNum=5213 (421 words)

	The Faust Tradition: Links of Interest
		Faust home - Syllabus - Course Description - Materials - Grades
		Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust I (1808) and Faust II (1832)
		Heinrich Heine: Der Doktor Faust: Eine Tanzballade ()
	www.csuchico.edu /~goulding/faust/faustlinks.htm (112 words)

	NPR's At the Opera
		It seems there really was a Dr. Faust -- or at least a guy named Faust who called himself a doctor.
		What he finally came up with was one of the greatest and most influential literary works of all time.
		But there's one Faustian opera that many of you may have missed: Doktor Faust, by Ferruccio Busoni.
	www.npr.org /programs/attheopera/archives/010120.ato.html (459 words)

	Re: Doktor Faust at the San Francisco Opera
		Busoni has little tolerance for glorifying human "stuggle" (though Faust mentions that, too) or the human imagination, and he clearly doesn't see the Eternal Feminine as offering hope for mankind, at least so far as I could perceive.
		Jack Hamilton Doktor Faust at the San Francisco Opera
		Re: Doktor Faust at the San Francisco Opera
	www.talkaboutthemusic.com /group/rec.music.opera/messages/470079.html (443 words)

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