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After Wagner: Histories of Modernist Music Drama from Parsifal to Nono

After Wagner: Histories of Modernist Music Drama from Parsifal to Nono

Berry, Mark

Hardcover

Classical MusicOperaMusic Reference

ISBN10: 1843839687
ISBN13: 9781843839682
Publisher: Boydell Press
Published: Oct 16 2014
Pages: 326
Weight: 1.40
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Offers histories of music drama beginning with Wagner's Parsifal and then looking at works by Arnold Schoenberg, Richard Strauss, Luigi Dallapiccola, Luigi Nono and Hans Werner Henze.

This book is both a telling of operatic histories 'after' Richard Wagner, and a philosophical reflection upon the writing of those histories. Historical musicology reckons with intellectual and cultural history, and vice versa. The 'after' of the title denotes chronology, but also harmony and antagonism within a Wagnerian tradition. Parsifal, in which Wagner attempted to go beyond his achievement in the Ring, to write 'after' himself, is followed by two apparent antipodes: the strenuously modernist Arnold Schoenberg and the stheticist Richard Strauss. Discussion of Strauss's Capriccio, partly in the light of Schoenberg's Moses und Aron, reveals amore 'political' work than either first acquaintance or the composer's 'intention' might suggest.

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