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Composers

Walter Braunfels

Media

Braunfels:  Die Vögel- Prelude
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin conducted by Lothar Zagrosek.
Braunfels:  The Birds (Die Vögel)
Clip of LA Opera's production of Braunfels' The Birds. Walter Braunfels freely adapted the ancient Greek comic-dramatist Aristophanes's play The Birds to compose what he described as an "airy play of imagination...everything here is a game, a metaphor."