Richard Strauss in context / edited by Morten Kristiansen, Joseph E. Jones.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Description
1 online resource (xxiv, 369 pages)

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Series
Composers in context [More in this series]
Summary note
Richard Strauss in Context offers a distinctive approach to the study of a composer in that it places the emphasis on contextualizing topics rather than on biography and artistic output. One might say that it inverts the relationship between composer and context. Rather than studies of Strauss's librettists that discuss the texts themselves and his musical settings, for instance, this book offers essays on the writers themselves: their biographical circumstances, styles, landmark works, and broader positions in literary history. Likewise, Strauss's contributions to the concert hall are positioned within the broader development of the orchestra and trends in programmatic music. In short, readers will benefit from an elaboration of material that is either absent from or treated only briefly in existing publications. Through this supplemental and broader contextual approach, this book serves as a valuable and unique resource for students, scholars, and a general readership.
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 13 Oct 2020).
Contents
  • Family, Friends, and Collaborators. Family and Upbringing / Chris Walton ; Formative Influences / David Larkin ; Pauline de Ahna / Katharina Hottmann ; Close Friends / Walter Werbeck ; Hofmannsthal / Ingeborg Haase and Dirk Hoffmann ; The Other Librettists / Kenneth Birkin ; Stage Collaborators / Ryan Prendergast ; Champions / Bryan Gilliam
  • Career Stations. Munich and Garmisch / Sebastian Bolz ; Meiningen and Weimar / Michael Saffle ; Bayreuth / Ulrich Konrad ; Berlin / Dietmar Schenk ; Vienna / Joseph E. Jones
  • Cultural Engagement and Musical Life. Strauss as Reader / Matthew Werley ; Antiquity / Jason Geary ; Philosophy and Religion / Charles Youmans ; Allgemeiner Deutscher Musikverein / James Deaville ; Genossenschaft Deutscher Tonsetzer / Manuela Schmidt
  • Professional and Musical Contexts. The Composer / Jeremy Zima ; The Conductor / Raymond Holden ; The Orchestra / Scott Warfield ; Program Music / Jonathan Kregor ; Post-Wagnerian Opera / Morten Kristiansen ; The Lied / Jurgen May
  • In History. Modernism / Peter Franklin ; Traditionalism / Leon Botstein ; World War I / Philip Graydon ; Nazi Germany / Erik Levi ; Lateness / Giangiorgio Satragni ; Reception / Franzpeter Messmer
  • Artifacts and Legacy. Publishers and Editions / Andreas Pernpeintner and Stefan Schenk ; Letters / Claudia Heine and Adrian Kech ; In Performance / Raymond Holden ; Influence / Ben Winters ; 2001: A Space Odyssey and Beyond / Charles Youmans ; Scholarly Directions / Matthew Werley.
ISBN
9781108379939 (ebook)
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