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Titre(s) : Music in Goethe's Faust [Texte imprimé] : Goethe's Faust in music / edited by Lorraine Byrne Bodley
Publication : Woodbridge : The Boydell Press, [2017]
Description matérielle : xix, 336 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm
Comprend : Introduction. Rhapsody and rebuke : Goethe's Faust in music ; The redress of Goethe's
Faust in music history / Lorraine Byrne Bodley ; Wagering on modernity : Goethe's
eighteenth-century Faust / Nicholas Boyle ; Reflectivity, music and the modern condition
: thoughts on Goethe's Faust / Martin Swales ; Music and metaphorical thinking in
Goethe's Faust : the example of harmony / J.M. Tudor ; Faust : the instrumentalisation
of an icon / Osman Durrani ; Faust's Schubert : Schubert's Faust / John Michael Cooper
; The musical novel as master-genre : Schumann's Szenen aus Goethes Faust / Julian
Horton ; The psychology of Schumann's Faust : developing the human soul / Christopher
Ruth ; A life with Goethe : Wagner's engagement with Faust in music and in words
/ Glenn Stanley ; Wagner's Ninth : reading Beethoven with Faust / Mark Austin ;
Linking Christian and Faustian utopias : Mahler's setting of the Schluszene in his
Eighth Symphony / Eftychia Papanikolaou ; Operatic translation and adaptation : Gounod's
Faust, with a tribute to Ken Russell / Siobhán Donovan ; Adapters, falsifiers and
profiteers : staging La damnation de Faust in Monte Carlo and Paris, 1893-1903 / Heather
Hadlock ; Faust in the trenches : Busoni's Doktor Faust / Mark Fitzgerald ; As Goethe
intended? : Max Reinhardt's Faust productions and the aesthetics of incidental music
in the early twentieth century / Ursula Kramer ; Music and the rebirth of Faust in
the GDR / David Robb ; Music, text and stage : Peter Stein's production of Goethe's
Faust / John Guthrie ; 'Devilishly good' : Rudolf Volz's rock opera Faust and 'event
culture' / Waltraud Maierhofer ; Select bibliography.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
That Goethe's poetry has proved pivotal for the development of the nineteenth-century
Lied has long been acknowledged. Less acknowledged is the seminal impact in musical
realms of Goethe's Faust, a work which has attracted the attention of composers since
the late eighteenth century and played a vital role in the evolution of vocal, operatic
and instrumental repertoire in the nineteenth century. While Goethe longed to have
Faust set to music and considered only Mozart and perhaps Meyerbeer as being equal
to the task, by the end of his life he had abandoned hope that he would live to witness
a musical setting of his text. Despite this, a floodtide of musical interpretations
of Goethe's Faust came into existence from Beethoven to Schubert, Schumann to Wagner
and Mahler, and Gounod to Berlioz; and a broad trajectory can be traced from Zelter's
colourful description of the first setting of Goethe's Faust to Alfred Schnittke's
Faust opera (1993). This book explores the musical origins of Goethe's Faust and the
musical dimensions of its legacy. It uncovers the musical furore caused by Goethe's
Faust and considers why his polemical text has resonated so strongly with composers.
0Bringing together leading musicologists and Germanists, the book addresses a wide
range of issues including reception history, the performative challenges of writing
music for Faust, the impact of the legend on composers' conceptual thinking, and the
ways in which it has been used by composers to engage with other contemporary intellectual
concepts. Constituting the richest examination to date of the musicality of language
and form in Goethe's Faust and its musical rendering from the eighteenth to twenty-first
centuries, the book will appeal to music, literary and Goethe scholars and students
alike
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Bodley, Lorraine Byrne (1968-....). Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832). Faust -- Adaptations musicales
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 1783272007. - ISBN 9781783272006
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45153943v
Notice n° :
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