Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Hugo von Hofmannsthal was born in Vienna in 1874, the only son of a bank director, and from the age of sixteen published, under the pseudonym Loris because he was still a schoolboy, poems that won him an early reputation. In 1902, in a fictitious letter from a young English lord to the philosopher Francis Bacon, he expressed a radical doubt about language and turned away from poetry. He then worked until his death with Richard Strauss, co-founded the Salzburg Festival, inaugurated in 1920, and died of a stroke on the day of the funeral of his son, who had taken his own life two days earlier.

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• TheatreDer RosenkavalierHugo von Hofmannsthal · 1911LiteraturePublic domain