Hans Christian Andersen
Born in a slum and struggling through his youth to break through Denmark's class structure, Hans Christian Andersen always considered himself an outsider. And so his plays, novels, and especially his fairy tales are populated by outsiders, some of whom do not live happily ever after. The young Andersen initially hoped to rise from his impoverishment as an actor, but a theater director instead raised money to send him to school. In 1829, he gained his first success not as an actor but as a writer, with "A Walk From Holmen's Canal to the East Point of the Island of Amager in the Years 1828 and 1829." Despite its unwieldy travelogue title, this was a tale of fantasy inspired by the work of E.T.A. Hoffmann. Still attached to the theater, Andersen went on to write several plays, few of which were particularly successful. He made his name more as a novelist, with such works as The Improviser (1835) and Only a Fiddler (1837). It was during this early phase of novel writing that Andersen also began turning out original little tales in folk style. The first of what would amount to 156 stories was published in 1835 as Eventyr, or Tales Told for Children. Eventyr was expanded in 1837 and a second volume came out in 1842. Related collections of stories were regularly issued through 1852, with a last publication, New Fairy Tales and Stories, finally arriving in 1872. One key to Andersen's popularity was his style, which was colloquial rather than literary. Yet he refused to write down to children; he introduced dark feelings and sinister turns of events and expressed special sympathy for outcasts, not just heroes and princesses. Some of his tales celebrated the triumph of goodness and were, indeed, overtly Christian, but others were pessimistic in the tradition of German Romanticism. Andersen was also a poet, and his verse has been set to music by such composers as Grieg, Nielsen, and Schumann (notably Der Spielmann). But his fairy tales have made the strongest impression on composers. Among musical adaptations, sometimes quite loose, of Andersen's tales are Prokofiev's song The Ugly Duckling, Mary Rodgers' musical Once Upon a Mattress (based on "The Princess and the Pea"), and Disney's animated feature The Little Mermaid.
© TiVo
-
Fairy Tales Stories Vol: 1
Humour/Spoken Word - Lançado por Oregan Publishing em 27/10/2018
Qualidade de CD de 16 bits 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
H. C. Andersen: Sämtliche Märchen und Geschichten: Die Schneekönigin
Children - Lançado por BUCHFUNK Verlag em 20/03/2019
Qualidade de CD de 16 bits 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
The Little Mermaid
Humour/Spoken Word - Lançado por Oregan Publishing em 04/10/2017
Qualidade de CD de 16 bits 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
H. C. Andersen: Sämtliche Märchen und Geschichten: Die Irrlichter sind in der Stadt, sagte die Moorfrau
Children - Lançado por BUCHFUNK Verlag em 20/03/2019
Qualidade de CD de 16 bits 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Hans-Christian Andersen, l'intégrale des contes (Collection l'intégrale de...)
Humour/Spoken Word - Lançado por SAGA Egmont em 01/01/2020
Qualidade de CD de 16 bits 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Wer war die Glücklichste? (Ungekürzt)
Miscellaneous - Lançado por Bookstream Hörbücher em 10/08/2020
Qualidade de CD de 16 bits 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Die Prinzessin und der Schweinehirt (Hörspiel)
Children - Lançado por Highscore Music em 09/11/2018
Qualidade de CD de 16 bits 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Les cygnes sauvages, un conte d'Andersen
Humour/Spoken Word - Lançado por SAGA Egmont em 01/01/2014
Qualidade de CD de 16 bits 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Märchen von Hans Christian Andersen 4 (Ungekürzt)
Miscellaneous - Lançado por Bookstream Hörbücher em 14/09/2020
Qualidade de CD de 16 bits 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Die kleine Meerjungfrau (Ein Märchen von Hans Christian Andersen)
Humour/Spoken Word - Lançado por Schwager & Steinlein Verlag em 01/10/2013
Qualidade de CD de 16 bits 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Märchen für kleine Jungs I
Wilhelm Busch, Clemens Brentano, Hans Christian Andersen, Ludwig Bechstein, Märchen aus 1001 Nacht
Humour/Spoken Word - Lançado por SAGA Egmont em 24/02/2022
Qualidade de CD de 16 bits 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Märchen von Hans Christian Andersen 1 (Ungekürzt)
Miscellaneous - Lançado por Bookstream Hörbücher em 11/09/2020
Qualidade de CD de 16 bits 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Purple Schulz liest Hans Christian Andersen
Children - Lançado por SYWA em 24/04/2020
Qualidade de CD de 16 bits 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Walter Niklaus: Bericht einer Reise in die Sächsische Schweiz (Reihe: Digidal neu uffgeleschd)
Uwe Steimle, Hans Christian Andersen
Humour/Spoken Word - Lançado por Weltbuch Verlag em 28/12/2020
Qualidade de CD de 16 bits 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
H. C. Andersen: Sämtliche Märchen und Geschichten: Das kleine Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzchen
Children - Lançado por BUCHFUNK Verlag em 20/03/2019
Qualidade de CD de 16 bits 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Der Kobold und die Frau (Ungekürzt)
Miscellaneous - Lançado por Bookstream Hörbücher em 17/08/2020
Qualidade de CD de 16 bits 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Des Kaisers neue Kleider
Humour/Spoken Word - Lançado por SWR Mediaservices GmbH em 15/07/1953
Qualidade de CD de 16 bits 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Märchen für kleine Mädchen I
Charles Perrault, Novalis, Hans Christian Andersen, Ludwig Bechstein, Giambattista Basile, Märchen aus 1001 Nacht
Humour/Spoken Word - Lançado por SAGA Egmont em 22/02/2022
Qualidade de CD de 16 bits 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Ausgewählte Märchen (Ungekürzt)
Hans Christian Andersen, Wilhelm Grimm, Wilhelm Hauff
Humour/Spoken Word - Lançado por Steinbach Sprechende Bücher em 22/01/2013
Qualidade de CD de 16 bits 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
100 kendte Skuespillere læser H.C. Andersen 14
Literature - Lançado por OKTAV em 06/07/2020
Qualidade de CD de 16 bits 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Die kleine Meerjungfrau / Es ist ganz gewiss / Der Springer / Hofhahn und Wetterhahn
Hans Christian Andersen, Manfred Steffen
Humour/Spoken Word - Lançado por Deutsche Grammophon Literatur em 04/10/2019
Qualidade de CD de 16 bits 44.1 kHz - Stereo