Otto Büchstein: Difference between revisions

Wrote the justifiably under-appreciated operettas ''[[der Glücklich Widersprüchlichmensch]]'' (“The [[Jolly Contrarian]]”), ''[[Die Warteschleifenmusikopfer]]'' (“The hold-music victim”), his {{br|Form und Substanz}} cycle (comprising ''[[Der Sieg der Form über Substanz]]'' (“The Triumph of Form over Substance”) (more usually known, and performed, in Italian as ''[[La Vittoria della Forma sulla Sostanza]]'') and {{br|Talentdämmerung}} (“Twilight of the Subject Matter Experts”)). There is a theory that the harrowing final scene of {{br|Talentdämmerung}}, involving a [[Crisp-packet blowing across St Mark’s square|crisp packet blowing across St Mark’s square]], was formative on the young William Shakespeare.

There are rumoured to be other unfinished operas and librettos that the author feverishly scribbled down in his final days. Fragments have recently been uncovered courtly heroic saga of ISDA knights, {{br|Ser Jaramey Slizzard}}, and there are larger extant sections of ''[[Die Schweizer Heulsuse]]'' (the “[[The Swiss Milquetoast|Swiss Milquetoast]]”), supposedly commissioned by a mysterious patron as [[Büchstein]] lay dying in a hospital bed in [[Mandalay]], afflicted with dengue fever<ref>Or possibly malaria.</ref>. The identity of the mysterious patron has never been uncovered — [[Büchstein]]’s facility for prevarication is well known, and he may well have just made it up — but popular theories have circulated that it was {{jerrold}}, or {{buchstein}}’s life-long antagonist [[Winthrop Grumman]]. If you know anything about it, please get in touch!

*''[[Der Sieg der Form über Substanz]]