| Description |
x, 294 pages: illustration, music ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [279]-290) and index. |
| Contents |
Prologue. Intellectual history and artistic production : the case of Richard Strauss -- Pt. 1. The private intellectual context of Strauss's early career. "The conversion" : Strauss and Wagnerism -- Music and the "denial of the will" : Schopenhauer in Strauss's life and work -- Strauss's Nietzsche -- Goethe and the development of Strauss's mature worldview -- Pt. 2. Orchestral composition as philosophical critique. The first cycle of tone poems : genesis of a critical musical technique -- Eulenspiegel, Zarathustra, Quixote, Strauss : crystallization of a persona -- Absolute music, twentieth-century aesthetics, and the symphonies of Richard Strauss. |
| Subject |
Strauss, Richard, 1864-1949. Orchestra music.
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Strauss, Richard, 1864-1949 -- Aesthetics.
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Orchestral music -- History and criticism.
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Music -- Germany -- 20th century -- Philosophy.
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Modernism (Music) -- Germany.
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| ISBN |
0253345731 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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