Rounding Wagner's Mountain: Richard Strauss and Modern German Opera

ISBN-13: 9781108464789 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 356 str.

Bryan Gilliam

Opis

Bryan Gilliam explores the composer's response to Wagner in his discussion of Strauss' stage works and their historical contexts.

Recenzje

'… [a] fine piece of work … beautifully written, subtle, authoritative and perceptive … elegant and important … [This] book is refreshingly literate, learned, economical and unerringly incisive.' Leon Botstein, President, Bard College

Spis treści

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.