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After Wagner: Histories of Modernist Music Drama from Parsifal to Nono
Mark Berry
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Description for After Wagner: Histories of Modernist Music Drama from Parsifal to Nono
Hardback. 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. Num Pages: 325 pages, 12 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: AVGC5; AVGC9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 237 x 26. Weight in Grams: 734.
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 æstheticist 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. Then come three composers from subsequent generations: Luigi Dallapiccola, Luigi Nono, and Hans Werner Henze. Geographical context is extended to take in Wagner's Italian successors; the problem of political emancipation in and through music drama takes another turn here, confronting challenges and opportunities in more avowedly 'politically engaged' art. A final section explores the world of staging opera, of so-called Regietheater, as initiated by Wagner himself. Stefan Herheim's celebrated Bayreuth production of Parsifal, and various performances of Lohengrin are discussed, before looking back to Mozart (Don Giovanni) and forward to Alban Berg's Lulu and Nono's Al gran sole carico d'amore. Throughout, the book invites us to consider how we might perceive the æsthetic and political integrity of the operatic work 'after Wagner'. After Wagner will be invaluable to anyone interested in twentieth-century music drama and its intersection with politics and cultural history. It will also appeal to those interested in Richard Wagner's cultural impact on succeeding generations of composers. MARK BERRY is Senior Lecturer in Music at Royal Holloway, University of London.
Product Details
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
733g
Number of Pages
325
Place of Publication
Woodbridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781843839682
SKU
V9781843839682
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Reviews for After Wagner: Histories of Modernist Music Drama from Parsifal to Nono
Berry presents a wide range of sometimes unconventional interpretations of the works in question..[the book] can be recommended to anyone looking for new ideas about the influence of Wagner on later music dramas.
WAGNERSPECTRUM
Not only a history of opera after Wagner, but an attempt to make a case for Wagner in twenty-first-century composition and performance.
TEMPO
An enticing project and a worthwhile read.
BBC RADIO 3, MUSIC MATTERS
Compelling.
GRAMOPHONE
WAGNERSPECTRUM
Not only a history of opera after Wagner, but an attempt to make a case for Wagner in twenty-first-century composition and performance.
TEMPO
An enticing project and a worthwhile read.
BBC RADIO 3, MUSIC MATTERS
Compelling.
GRAMOPHONE