Talk:The Book with Seven Seals

Literary Allusions (Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus)
The circumstances mentioned can not justify the assumption that Franz Schmidt's oratorium was the model for Leverkühn's in Thomas Mann's novel. Decades of intense research with publication of Mann's diaries and correspondence have not produced the slightest hint that Mann even knew of Schmidt's composition. The parallels between Schmidt's "Buch" and Leverkühn's "Apocalypsis" proof nothing. Besides "Doctor Faustus": what could have been more appropriate for doomed Leverkühn to turn into music than the apocalypse? And what's so special about having the evangelist as narrator, when setting St. John's relevation to the seven churches into music? That it was (or had to be) suggested to Mann by Schmidt's composition is claimed nowhere else but in the English Wikipedia. --91.62.71.218 (talk) 19:36, 10 January 2010 (UTC) now signed--Vsop.de (talk) 15:19, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

Schmidt's was actually not "the first oratorio to attempt a setting of the Book of Revelation". Louis Spohr had written one in 1812 (Das jüngste Gericht - The Last Judgement) op. WoO 60. In 1826 he had written another oratorio "Die letzten Dinge" op. WoO 61, those four last things (Quatuor Novissima) being death, judgement, heaven & hell. There is also "Die letzten vier Dinge" of 1811 by Josepf Eybler  --Vsop.de (talk) 04:14, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

What Bible version did Schmidt use? Who translated and interpreted it?
The Book with Seven Seals (Das Buch mit sieben Siegeln) is the name of the oratorio in German by the Austrian composer Franz Schmidt, on themes from the biblical Book of Revelation of Saint John the Divine. But what Bible version did Schmidt use? And who translated and interpreted it and this article? There are many differences with other Bible versions/translations/interpretations. Why even the name - The Book with Seven Seals - is in conflict with every English Bible version since the King James Version (Authorized Version), whereas, The Revelation 5:1-10:10 refers to a "scroll sealed with seven seals". The article also confuses 'heavens' (the sky/space) and 'heaven' (an ideal place/frame-of-mind) several times. - Brad Watson, Miami 71.196.11.183 (talk) 13:02, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

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I think it can be a candidate for the homepage of Wikipedia in the section titled "Did you know ...". The current article may be assimilated to Emily Swallow or Wiener Hofmusikkapelle which are cited in the aforementioned section.Micheledisaveriosp (talk) 23:04, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

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