Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 167 mm x 243 mm, Gewicht: 610 g
The Problem of Tradition and the Possibility of Renewal in Postwar West Germany
Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 167 mm x 243 mm, Gewicht: 610 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-006373-3
Verlag: Sydney University Press
relationship to the competing ethics of modernism and restoration, opera was a richly contested art form, and the genre's reputed conservatism was remarkably multi-faceted.
Author Emily Richmond Pollock explores how composers developed different strategies to make new opera "new" while still deferring to historical conventions, all of which carried cultural resonances of their own. Diverse approaches to operatic tradition are exemplified through five case studies in works by Boris Blacher, Hans Werner Henze, Carl Orff, Bernd Alois Zimmermann, and Werner Egk. Each opera alludes to a distinct cultural or musical past, from Greek tragedy to Dada, bel canto
to Berg. Pollock's discussions of these pieces draw on source studies, close readings, unpublished correspondence, institutional history, and critical commentary to illuminate the politicized artistic environment that influenced these operas' creation and reception. The result is new insight into how the
particular opposition between a conservative genre and the idea of the "Zero Hour" motivated the development of opera's social, aesthetic, and political value after World War II.