German Modernism : Music and the Arts / Walter Frisch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frisch, Walter, Author.

Series:

California Studies in 20th-Century Music ; 3

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (332 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2005]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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 "ambivalent" 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

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

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 18. Sep 2024)

ISBN:

9780520420885

0520420888

OCLC:

61730535