He wrote a seldom-performed opera called The Water Sprite, and one of his first works was the four-volume Fantasy Pieces in the Style of Callot.
His tale of a murderous goldsmith entitled Cardillac inspired a 1926 Paul Hindemith work of the same name, and he also completed a two-volume autobiography of a cat. He wrote a seldom-performed opera called The Water Sprite, and one of his first works was the four-volume Fantasy Pieces in the Style of Callot. Thomas Carlyle translated his The Golden Pot, but he's better known for works like the opera Undine and the story The Serapion Brothers. FTP, name this author of The Devil's Elixir and The Life and Opinions of the Tom-Cat Murr, whose changed his third name to "Amadeus" to honor Mozart and whose namesake "tales" inspired Jacques Offenbach to compose an opera.
His tale of a murderous goldsmith entitled Cardillac inspired a 1926 Paul Hindemith work of the same name, and he also completed a two-volume autobiography of a cat.
Ernst Theodor Amadeus Wilhelm Hoffmann