Mendelssohn, Goethe, and the Walpurgis night : the heathen muse in European culture, 1700-1850 / John Michael Cooper.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cooper, John Michael.

Series:

Eastman studies in music 1071-9989

Eastman studies in music, 1071-9989

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix, 1809-1847. Erste Walpurgisnacht.

Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832. Faust.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von.

Europe--Religious life and customs.

Europe.

Other (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

xvi, 284 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2007.

Summary:

The first in-depth study of Mendelssohn's two settings of Goethe's Die erste Walpurgisnacht, in the context of scenes from Goethe's Faust/I> and other works.

Contents:

The cultural and religious prehistories

Tolerance, translation, and acceptance : Goethe's and Mendelssohn's voices in European cultural discourse to ca. 1850

Reality and illusion, past and present : Goethe and the Walpurgisnacht

The composition, revision, and publication of Mendelssohn's Die erste Walpurgisnacht

The sources, structure, and narrative of Mendelssohn's Walpurgisnacht settings

At the crossroads of identity : critical and artistic responses to Goethe's and Mendelssohn's Walpurgisnacht treatments

Performing identity and alterity : Die erste Walpurgisnacht then and now.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [261]-274) and indexes.

ISBN:

9781580462525

1580462529

OCLC:

74940918