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  1. Works by E. T. A. Hoffmann at Project Gutenberg; Works by E. T. A. Hoffmann at Faded Page (Canada) Works by or about E. T. A. Hoffmann at Internet Archive; Works by E. T. A. Hoffmann at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks) Hoffmann's Life and Opinions of the Tom Cat Murr; Free scores by E. T. A. Hoffmann in the Choral Public Domain Library ...

  2. E.T.A. Hoffmann (born January 24, 1776, Königsberg, Prussia [now Kaliningrad, Russia]—died June 25, 1822, Berlin, Germany) was a German writer, composer, and painter known for his stories in which supernatural and sinister characters move in and out of men’s lives, ironically revealing tragic or grotesque sides of human nature.

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  3. E. T. A. Hoffmann. Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann (January 24, 1776 – June 25, 1822), better known by his pen name E. T. A. Hoffmann, was a Romantic author of fantasy and horror, a jurist, composer, music critic, draftsman and caricaturist. Hoffmann was one of the key authors of the later the Romantic movement and a transitional figure.

  4. Nov 18, 2023 · November 18, 2023 at 8:00 a.m. EST. (Archipelago) If the name E.T.A. Hoffmann rings a bell — a considerable if — it’s probably because of the ballet “The Nutcracker” (he wrote the story ...

  5. Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann was a German Romantic author of fantasy and Gothic horror, a jurist, composer, music critic and artist. His stories form the basis of Jacques Offenbach's opera The Tales of Hoffmann, in which Hoffmann appears as the hero. He is also the author of the novella The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, on which Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker is based. The ...

  6. E. T. A. Hoffmann (für Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, eigentlich Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann; * 24. Januar 1776 in Königsberg, Ostpreußen; † 25. Juni 1822 in Berlin) war ein bedeutender deutscher Schriftsteller der Romantik. Außerdem wirkte er als Jurist, Komponist, Kapellmeister, Musikkritiker, Zeichner und Karikaturist .

  7. When E. T. A. Hoffmann confessed this to a friend in 1812, he had already published the story of Ritter Gluck and the first Kreisleriana, which soon established his fame (and his dazzling reputation). Heinrich Heine was later to call Hoffmann’s work a “horrifying cry of anguish in twenty volumes”. Notice, he was referring to his literary ...

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