Tod und Verklärung
E441184
Tod und Verklärung is a late-Romantic tone poem for large orchestra that depicts an artist’s final moments and spiritual transfiguration.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tod und Verklärung canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4471063 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tod und Verklärung Context triple: [Richard Strauss, notableWork, Tod und Verklärung]
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A.
Die Brücke
Die Brücke was a pioneering early 20th-century German art group whose bold colors, distorted forms, and emotionally charged imagery helped define the Expressionist movement.
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B.
The Magic Mountain
The Magic Mountain is a landmark 1924 novel by Thomas Mann that follows a young man's extended stay in a Swiss sanatorium to explore themes of time, illness, and the intellectual currents of pre–World War I Europe.
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C.
Death in Venice
Death in Venice is a 1912 novella by Thomas Mann that explores themes of beauty, obsession, and decay through the story of an aging writer’s infatuation with a young boy in cholera-stricken Venice.
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D.
Hexentanzplatz
Hexentanzplatz is a famous plateau and tourist spot in the Harz Mountains of Germany, known for its dramatic views, folklore about witches, and Walpurgis Night celebrations.
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E.
Die Weltalter
Die Weltalter is an unfinished philosophical work by Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling in which he develops a speculative history of the cosmos and the stages of divine and worldly existence.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tod und Verklärung Target entity description: Tod und Verklärung is a late-Romantic tone poem for large orchestra that depicts an artist’s final moments and spiritual transfiguration.
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A.
Die Brücke
Die Brücke was a pioneering early 20th-century German art group whose bold colors, distorted forms, and emotionally charged imagery helped define the Expressionist movement.
-
B.
The Magic Mountain
The Magic Mountain is a landmark 1924 novel by Thomas Mann that follows a young man's extended stay in a Swiss sanatorium to explore themes of time, illness, and the intellectual currents of pre–World War I Europe.
-
C.
Death in Venice
Death in Venice is a 1912 novella by Thomas Mann that explores themes of beauty, obsession, and decay through the story of an aging writer’s infatuation with a young boy in cholera-stricken Venice.
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D.
Hexentanzplatz
Hexentanzplatz is a famous plateau and tourist spot in the Harz Mountains of Germany, known for its dramatic views, folklore about witches, and Walpurgis Night celebrations.
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E.
Die Weltalter
Die Weltalter is an unfinished philosophical work by Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling in which he develops a speculative history of the cosmos and the stages of divine and worldly existence.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
late-Romantic composition
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orchestral work ⓘ tone poem ⓘ |
| catalogueNumber | TrV 158 ⓘ |
| composer | Richard Strauss ⓘ |
| composerNationality | German ⓘ |
| compositionEndYear | 1889 ⓘ |
| compositionStartYear | 1888 ⓘ |
| conductorAtPremiere | Richard Strauss ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Germany ⓘ |
| dateOfCompletion | 1889 ⓘ |
| dedicatedTo | Friedrich Rosch ⓘ |
| depicts |
an artist’s final moments
ⓘ
spiritual transfiguration ⓘ |
| duration | approximately 25 minutes ⓘ |
| followedBy | Macbeth ⓘ |
| form | through-composed ⓘ |
| genre | symphonic poem ⓘ |
| hasSection |
introduction depicting illness
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moment of death ⓘ struggle with death ⓘ transfiguration coda ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
death motif
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transfiguration theme ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Franz Liszt’s symphonic poems ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Richard Strauss’s early tone poems ⓘ |
| key | C major ⓘ |
| languageOfTitle | German ⓘ |
| laterPublisher | Universal Edition ⓘ |
| movementStructure | single-movement ⓘ |
| narrativeProgram |
the death of an artist
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the transfiguration of the soul ⓘ |
| notableRecordingBy |
Herbert von Karajan
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Karl Böhm ⓘ Leonard Bernstein ⓘ Rudolf Kempe ⓘ |
| opusNumber | Op. 24 ⓘ |
| precededBy | Don Juan ⓘ |
| premiereCountry | Germany ⓘ |
| premiereDate | 1890 ⓘ |
| premierePlace | Eisenach ⓘ |
| publisher | Jos. Aibl Verlag ⓘ |
| scoredFor | large orchestra ⓘ |
| stylePeriod | Late Romantic ⓘ |
| translatedTitle |
Death and Transfiguration
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linked to:
Transfiguration
|
| uses |
expanded woodwind section
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full string section ⓘ large brass section ⓘ percussion ⓘ |
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