German Modernism (eBook)

Music and the Arts

Walter Frisch (Autor)

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2005
332 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-94080-2 (ISBN)

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In this pioneering, erudite study of a pivotal era in the arts, Walter Frisch examines music and its relationship to early modernism in the Austro-German sphere. Seeking to explore the period on its own terms, Frisch questions the common assumption that works created from the later 1870s through World War I were transitional between late romanticism and high modernism. Drawing on a wide range of examples across different media, he establishes a cultural and intellectual context for late Richard Wagner, Richard Strauss, Gustav Mahler, and Arnold Schoenberg, as well as their less familiar contemporaries Eugen d'Albert, Hans Pfitzner, Max Reger, Max von Schillings, and Franz Schreker.Frisch explores "e;ambivalent"e; modernism in the last quarter of the nineteenth century as reflected in the attitudes of, and relationship between, Nietzsche and Wagner. He goes on to examine how naturalism, the first self-conscious movement of German modernism, intersected with musical values and practices of the day. He proposes convergences between music and the visual arts in the works of Brahms, Max Klinger, Schoenberg, and Kandinsky. Frisch also explains how, near the turn of the century, composers drew inspiration and techniques from music of the past-the Renaissance, Bach, Mozart, and Wagner. Finally, he demonstrates how irony became a key strategy in the novels and novellas of Thomas Mann, the symphonies of Mahler, and the operas of Strauss and Hofmannsthal.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. Ambivalent Modernism: Perspectives from the 1870s and 1880s
2. German Naturalism
3. Convergences: Music and the Visual Arts
4. Bach, Regeneration, and Historicist Modernism
5. Ironic Germans
6. Dancing in Chains: Strauss, Hofmannsthal, Pfitzner, and Their Musical Pasts

Notes
Bibliography of Works Cited
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.7.2005
• Reihe/Serie: California Studies in 20th-Century Music
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
• Schlagworte: 19th century european music • 20th century european music • ambivalent modernism • Arnold Schoenberg • austro german music • california studies in 20th century music • Early Modernism • eugen dalbert • Franz Schreker • german modernism • german naturalism • Gustav Mahler • Hans Pfitzner • historicist modernism • late richard wagner • Max Reger • max von schillings • modernism • modernist music • Modernity • music • music and visual arts • Music History • Musicians • Nietzsche • Richard Strauss • Thomas Mann • Wagner
• ISBN-10: 0-520-94080-6 / 0520940806
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-94080-2 / 9780520940802