The Cremona Violin (Dodo Press)
Hoffmann, E. T. A. / Bealby, J. T.
Ernst Theodor Amadeus (ne Wilhelm) Hoffmann (1776- 1822), better known by his pen name E. T. A. Hoffmann, was a German Romantic author of fantasy and horror, a jurist, composer, music critic, draftsman and caricaturist. He is the subject and hero of Jacques Offenbach⿿s famous but fictional opera The Tales of Hoffmann. Hoffmann⿿s stories were tremendously influential in the 19th century, and he is one of the key authors of the Romantic movement...