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Morality and Viennese opera in the age of Mozart and Beethoven / Martin Nedbal.
Author
Nedbal, Martin
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY ; Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2017.
©2017
Description
xvi, 243 pages : music 24 cm.
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Mendel Music Library - Stacks
ML1723.8.V6 N4 2017
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Subject(s)
Opera
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Austria
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Vienna
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19th century
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Opera
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Moral and ethical aspects
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Austria
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Vienna
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18th century
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Opera
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Moral and ethical aspects
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Austria
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Vienna
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19th century
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Opera
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Austria
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Vienna
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18th century
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Gluck, Christoph Willibald Ritter von 1714-1787
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Rencontre imprévue
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Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus 1756-1791
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Entführung aus dem Serail
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Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus 1756-1791
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Zauberflöte
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Beethoven, Ludwig van 1770-1827
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Fidelio (1814)
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Series
Ashgate interdisciplinary studies in opera
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Summary note
This book explores how the Enlightenment aesthetics of theater as a moral institution influenced cultural politics and operatic developments in Vienna between the mid-eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Moralistic viewpoints were particularly important in eighteenth-century debates about German national theater. In Vienna, the idea that vernacular theater should cultivate the moral sensibilities of its German-speaking audiences became prominent during the reign of Empress Maria Theresa, when advocates of German plays and operas attempted to deflect the imperial government from supporting exclusively French and Italian theatrical performances. Morality continued to be a dominant aspect of Viennese operatic culture in the following decades, as critics, state officials, librettists, and composers (including Gluck, Mozart, and Beethoven) attempted to establish and define German national opera. Viennese concepts of operatic didacticism and national identity in theater further transformed in response to the crisis of Emperor Joseph II's reform movement, the revolutionary ideas spreading from France, and the war efforts in facing Napoleonic aggression. The imperial government promoted good morals in theatrical performances through the institution of theater censorship, and German-opera authors cultivated intensely didactic works (such as Die Zauberflöte and Fidelio) that eventually became the cornerstones for later developments of German culture [Publisher description]
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Cultivating the court and the nation in Gluck's La rencontre imprévue
Die Entführung aus dem Serail and the didactic aesthetics of the national Singspiel
Morality and Germanness in Die Zauberflöte
Die Zauberflöte and subversive morality in suburban operas
The politics of morality at the court theater in the late 1790s
How German is Fidelio? Didacticism in Beethovenian operas.
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ISBN
9781472476579 (hardback : alkaline paper)
1472476573
LCCN
2016005214
OCLC
940342234
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