Physical Description
xi, 315 p. : ill., music ; 24 cm.
Contents
The new German school
Weber's ghost : Euryanthe, Genoveva, Lohengrin / Laura Tunbridge
Wagner amongst the Hegelians / Nicholas Walker
Wagnerian politics
Magnificent obsession : Tristan und Isolde as the object of musical analysis / Thomas Grey
From critical tool to political metaphor : thoughts on the writings of Houston Stewart Chamberlain / Roger Allen
A question of identity : Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg in Weimar Germany / Áine Sheil
The politics of reception
Schütz's Dafne and the German operatic imagination / Bettina Varwig ; Deception on stage : Don Carlos di Vargas and Franz Werfel's politics of operatic translation / Gundula Kreuzer
Bruckner in the theatre : on the politics of 'absolute' music in performance / Nicholas Attfield
An excursus on Vienna
"Wer weiss, Vater, ob das nicht Engel sind?" : reflections on the pre-fascist discourse of degeneracy in Schreker's Die Gezeichneten / Peter Franklin
'The republic of the mind' : politics, the arts and ideas in Schoenberg's post-war projects / Jennifer Shaw
Berg's operas and the politics of subjectivity / Julian Johnson
Interwar Germany
'Stadtluft macht frei' : urban consciousness in Weimar opera / Peter Tregear
Magic boxes and Volksempfänger : music on the radio in Weimar Germany / Alexander Rehding
Socialism and the 'free development of art' : Karl Amadeus Hartmann's opera Simplicius simplicissimus / Egon Voss.
Other Authors/Editors
Bacht, Nikolaus.
ISBN
0754655210
9780754655213 (alk. paper)
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-306) and index.
The new German school -- Weber's ghost : Euryanthe, Genoveva, Lohengrin / Laura Tunbridge -- Wagner amongst the Hegelians / Nicholas Walker -- Wagnerian politics -- Magnificent obsession : Tristan und Isolde as the object of musical analysis / Thomas Grey -- From critical tool to political metaphor : thoughts on the writings of Houston Stewart Chamberlain / Roger Allen -- A question of identity : Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg in Weimar Germany / Áine Sheil -- The politics of reception -- Schütz's Dafne and the German operatic imagination / Bettina Varwig ; Deception on stage : Don Carlos di Vargas and Franz Werfel's politics of operatic translation / Gundula Kreuzer -- Bruckner in the theatre : on the politics of 'absolute' music in performance / Nicholas Attfield -- An excursus on Vienna -- "Wer weiss, Vater, ob das nicht Engel sind?" : reflections on the pre-fascist discourse of degeneracy in Schreker's Die Gezeichneten / Peter Franklin -- 'The republic of the mind' : politics, the arts and ideas in Schoenberg's post-war projects / Jennifer Shaw -- Berg's operas and the politics of subjectivity / Julian Johnson -- Interwar Germany -- 'Stadtluft macht frei' : urban consciousness in Weimar opera / Peter Tregear -- Magic boxes and Volksempfänger : music on the radio in Weimar Germany / Alexander Rehding -- Socialism and the 'free development of art' : Karl Amadeus Hartmann's opera Simplicius simplicissimus / Egon Voss.
