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Book Writer 1890–1945

Franz Viktor Werfel (German: [fʁant͡s ˈvɛʁfl̩] ; 10 September 1890 – 26 August 1945) was a Czech novelist, playwright, and poet whose career spanned World War I, the Interwar period, and World War II. He is primarily known as the author of The Forty Days of Musa Dagh (1933, English tr. 1934, 2012), a novel based on events that took place during the Armenian genocide of 1915, and The Song of Bernadette (1941), a novel about the life and visions of the French Catholic saint Bernadette Soubirous, which was made into a Hollywood film of the same name.

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The Eternal Road

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  • But I wanted you to see a fagotto part retouched 3 times by Mahler's own hand. In fact, being a close friend of Alma Mahler and Franz Werfel, I studied most of Mahler's work anew with his manuscripts . Quite an exciting experience.ebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt
  • 32 Alma Mahler (née Schindler, 1879–1964) was married in turn to Gustav Mahler, Walter Gropius, and Franz Werfel. Her memoirs were published in 1958 with the title And the Bridge is Love , a quotation from Thornton Wilder's 1927 novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey (“There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love,…ebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt
  • Der Weg der Verheissung (biblical drama, Franz Werfel), 1934–35 [incomplete]; revised by Weill and Ludwig Lewisohn as The Eternal Road, New York, Manhattan Opera House, 7 January 1937.ebooks/Hinton, Stephen/Weill's Musical Theater_ Stages of Reform - Stephen Hinton.txt
  • 99 . Franz Werfel, The Eternal Road: A Drama in Four Parts, trans. Ludwig Lewisohn (New York: Viking Press, 1936), xi.ebooks/Hinton, Stephen/Weill's Musical Theater_ Stages of Reform - Stephen Hinton.txt
  • 103 . The Eternal Road by Franz Werfel, 10 January 1937, Alexander Leftwich Jr., Type-script, carbon copy, 129 pp., Revised Script, [Box 17] Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.ebooks/Hinton, Stephen/Weill's Musical Theater_ Stages of Reform - Stephen Hinton.txt
  • 116 . Norbert Abels, “Von den Mühen des Bibelspiels: Franz Werfel und Kurt Weill, Der Weg der Verheissung, ” in Loos and Stern (eds.), Kurt Weill: Auf dem Weg zum “Weg der Verheissung,” 134–56, here 154.ebooks/Hinton, Stephen/Weill's Musical Theater_ Stages of Reform - Stephen Hinton.txt

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