Rounding Wagner's Mountain

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-108-46478-9
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 356 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 618 g

Reihe: Cambridge Studies in Opera

Richard Strauss' fifteen operas, which span the years 1893 to 1941, make up the largest German operatic legacy since Wagner's operas of the nineteenth century. Many of Strauss's works were based on texts by Europe's finest writers: Oscar Wilde, Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Stefan Zweig, among others, and they also overlap some of the most important and tumultuous stretches of German history, such as the founding and demise of a German empire, the rise and fall of the Weimar Republic, the period of National Socialism, and the post-war years, which saw a divided East and West Germany. In the first book to discuss all Strauss's operas, Bryan Gilliam sets each work in its historical, aesthetic, philosophical, and literary context to reveal what made the composer's legacy unique. Addressing Wagner's cultural influence upon this legacy, Gilliam also offers new insights into the thematic and harmonic features that recur in Strauss's compositions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gilliam, Bryan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Partituren, Autographen, Libretti, Liederbücher
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musiktheorie, Musikästhetik, Kompositionslehre
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musikkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Einzelne Komponisten und Musiker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface; Introduction; A musical-analytical postscript; 1. Guntram and the crisis of German musical metaphysics; 2. Élan vital: Feuersnot, Salome, and radical individualism; 3. The way to the social: Elektra and Der Rosenkavalier; 4. Intermezzo: Ariadne and her transformations; 5. The marriage operas: Die Frau ohne Schatten, Intermezzo, and Die ägyptische Helena; 6. Composing without Hofmannsthal: Arabella and Die schweigsame Frau; 7. The politics of peace: Friedenstag and Daphne; 8. Opera in time of war: Die Liebe der Danae and Capriccio.

Über Autor(innen)

Gilliam, Bryan
Bryan Gilliam is a Bass Professor in Humanities at Duke University, North Carolina. He is the author of Richard Strauss's Elektra (1996) and The Life of Richard Strauss (Cambridge, 1999), and editor of a number of books, including Music and Performance during the Weimar Republic (Cambridge, 1994) and Music, Image, Gesture (2005). His numerous book chapters and articles include the biographical entry on Richard Strauss in The Revised New Grove Dictionary of Music. He serves on the Strauss editorial board in Munich and has given lectures in the US, Austria, Germany, and the UK.