Rounding Wagner's Mountain: Richard Strauss and Modern German Opera
Author:   Bryan Gilliam (Duke University, North Carolina)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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9781108464789


Pages:   356
Publication Date:   11 July 2018
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Author:   Bryan Gilliam (Duke University, North Carolina)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 24.50cm
Weight:   0.640kg
ISBN:  

9781108464789


ISBN 10:   1108464785
Pages:   356
Publication Date:   11 July 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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.

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'... [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 ... [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


'... [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


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Bryan Gilliam is a Bass Professor in Humanities at Duke University, North Carolina. He is the author of Richard Strauss's Elektra (1996) and The Life of Richard Strauss (Cambridge, 1999), and editor of a number of books, including Music and Performance during the Weimar Republic (Cambridge, 1994) and Music, Image, Gesture (2005). His numerous book chapters and articles include the biographical entry on Richard Strauss in The Revised New Grove Dictionary of Music. He serves on the Strauss editorial board in Munich and has given lectures in the US, Austria, Germany, and the UK.

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