The Don Giovanni moment : essays on the legacy of an opera / edited by Lydia Goehr & Daniel Herwitz.

Other author Goehr, Lydia editor.
Other author Herwitz, Daniel Alan, 1955- editor.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Columbia University Press, ©2006.
Descriptionxxii, 238 pages : illustrations, music ; 25 cm.
Subjects

SeriesColumbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts
Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts. ^A699779
Contents Don Giovanni: "And what communion hath light with darkness?" / Ingrid Rowland -- Don Juan and Faust: on the interaction between two literary myths / Ernst Osterkamp -- "Hidden secrets of the self": E.T.A. Hoffmann's reading of Don Giovanni / Richard Eldridge -- Don Juan in Nicholas's Russia (Pushkin's The Stone Guest) / Boris Gasparov -- Mörike's Mozart and the scent of a woman / Hans Rudolf Vaget -- The Gothic libertine: the shadow of Don Giovanni in German romantic music and culture / Thomas S. Grey -- Don Juan as an idea / Bernard Williams -- Kierkegaard writes his opera / Daniel Herwitz -- The curse and promise of the absolutely musical: Tristan and Isolde and Don Giovanni / Lydia Goehr -- Authority and judgment in Mozart's Don Giovanni and Wagner's Ring / Philip Kitcher and Richard Schacht -- Mozart's Don Giovanni in Shaw's comedy / Agnes Heller -- Giovanni auf Naxos / Brian Soucek -- Homage to Adorno's 'Homage to Zerlina' / Berthold Hoeckner -- Adorno and the Don / Nikolaus Bacht.
Abstract This book examines the aesthetic and moral legacy of Mozart's operatic masterpiece in the literature, philosophy, and culture of the nineteenth century. Deeply rooted in the enlightenment and romanticism, the opera functions as icon andmyth, and its tensions still resonate today.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
LCCN 2005033481
ISBN0231137540 (alk. paper)
ISBN0231510640 (ebook)
ISBN9780231137546

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Music Music Stacks ML410.M9 D63 2006 ✔ Available Place Hold