| Description |
xxiv, 369 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Composers in context
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Composers in context.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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 ; Other librettists / Kenneth Birkin ; Stage collaborators / Ryan M. 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 ; Allgemeine Deutsche Musikverein / James Deaville ; Genossenschaft Deutscher Tonsetzer / Manuela Schmidt -- Professional and musical contexts. Composer / Jeremy R. Zima ; Conductor / Raymond Holden ; Orchestra / Scott Warfield ; Program music / Jonathan Kregor ; Post-Wagnerian opera / Morten Kristiansen ; Lied / Jürgen 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. |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Strauss, Richard, 1864-1949 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Strauss, Richard, 1864-1949. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Strauss, Richard, 1864-1949 -- Friends and associates.
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Friends and associates. |
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Musicians -- Germany.
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Musicians. |
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Germany. |
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Friendship. |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Kristiansen, Morten, editor.
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Jones, Joseph E., editor.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Richard Strauss in context [1.] New York : Cambridge University Press, 2020. 9781108379939 (DLC) 2020016729 |
| ISBN |
9781108422000 hardback |
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1108422004 hardback |
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9781108434461 paperback |
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1108434460 paperback |
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9781108379939 (epub) |
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9781108390095 (PDF ebook) |
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