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There is little in it which cannot be traced more or less directly to a prototype in the works of Wagner, and it need scarcely be said that Goldmark does not improve upon his model In 'Das Heimchen am Herd' , the libretto of which is founded upon Dickens's famous story 'The Cricket on the Hearth, Goldmark seems to have tried to emulate the success of Humperdinck's 'Hänsel und Gretel, There are suggestions in it, too, of the influence of Smetana who dawned upon the Viennese horizon in 1890.
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