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Apocryphal Austrian playwright. m. [[Birgit von Sachsen-Rampton]] | Apocryphal Austrian playwright. m. [[Birgit von Sachsen-Rampton]]. | ||
Known to operate ''sub nom'' [[Jolly Contrarian]], on whom he based his first opera. It is understood that his character [[Don Iolio Contrario]] from ''[[La Vittoria della Forma sulla Sostanza|Form and Substance]]'' is also loosely autobiographical. | Known to operate ''sub nom'' [[Jolly Contrarian]], on whom he based his first opera. It is understood that his character [[Don Iolio Contrario]] from ''[[La Vittoria della Forma sulla Sostanza|Form and Substance]]'' is also loosely autobiographical. | ||
Wrote the justifiably under-appreciated operettas ''[[der Glücklich Widersprüchlichmensch]]'' (“The Jolly Contrarian”), ''[[Die Warteschleifenmusikopfer]]'' (“The hold-music victim”) and ''[[Die Eroberung der Form durch Substanz]]'' (“[[The Victory of Form over Substance|The victory of form over substance]]”) (more usually known, and performed, in Italian as ''[[La Vittoria della Forma sulla Sostanza]]''. A rumoured final opera, the unfinished ''[[Das Grösste Heulsuse in Zürich]]'' (the “Greatest Crybaby in Zurich”), supposedly commissioned by a mysterious patron as [[Büchstein]] lay dying in a hospital bed in [[Mandalay]], afflicted with [[Dengue Fever]], is believed now to be lost forever. If you know anything about it, please get in touch! | |||
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*''[[Die Eroberung der Form durch Substanz]] | *''[[Die Eroberung der Form durch Substanz]] | ||
*''[[Die Warteschleifenmusikopfer]]'', (Op. 27, No. 2) | *''[[Die Warteschleifenmusikopfer]]'', (Op. 27, No. 2) | ||
*''[[Das Grösste Heulsuse in Zürich]] | *''[[Das Grösste Heulsuse in Zürich]] (unfinished) | ||