Richard Strauss and his world / edited by Bryan Gilliam.
| Other author | Gilliam, Bryan Randolph, editor. |
| Other author | Gillespie, Susan H., translator. |
| Other author | Botstein, Leon, translator. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, ©1992. |
| Description | xi, 425 pages ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Series | Bard Music Festival series. ^A368770 |
| Contents | The enigmas of Richard Strauss: a revisionist view / Leon Botstein -- Daphne's transformation / Bryan Gilliam -- Structure and program in Macbeth: a proposed reading of Strauss's first symphonic poem / James Hepokoski -- Ruhe, meine Seele! and the Lezte Orchesterlieder / Timothy L. Jackson -- "Lass Er di Musi, wo sie ist": pitch specificity in Strauss / Derrick Puffett -- Richard Strauss and the question / Michael P. Steinberg -- Selections from the Strauss-Thuille correspondence: a glimpse of Strauss during his formative years ; Selections from the Strauss-Gregor correspondence: the genesis of Daphne / translated by Susan Gillespie -- Richard Strauss: the man / Alfred Kalisch -- Richard Strauss: seer and idealist / Percy Grainger -- Richard Strauss at eighty / Willi Schuh ; translated by Susan Gillespie -- The last visit with Richard Strauss / Rudolf Hartmann ; translated by Susan Gillespie -- On the tone poems of Richard Strauss / Rudolf Louis ; translated by Susan Gillespie -- Strauss and the Viennese critics (1896-1924): reviews by Gustav Schoenaich, Robert Hirschfeld, Guido Adler, Max Kalbeck, Julius Korngold, and Karl Kraus / selected and introduced by Leon Botstein ; translated by Susan Gillespie -- Elektra: a study by Paul Bekker ; translated by Susan Gillespie -- Richard Strauss at sixty / Theodor W. Adorno ; translated by Susan Gillespie. |
| Abstract | Strongly influencing European musical life from the 1880s through the First World War and remaining highly productive into the 1940s, Richard Strauss enjoyed a remarkable career in a constantly changing artistic and political climate. This volume presents six original essays on Strauss's musical works--including tone poems, lieder, and operas--and brings together letters, memoirs, and criticism from various periods of the composer's life. Many of these materials appear in English for the first time. In the essays Leon Botstein contradicts the notion of the composer's stylistic "about face" after Elektra; Derrick Puffett reinforces the argument for Strauss's artistic consistency by tracing in the tone poems and operas the phenomenon of pitch specificity; James Hepokoski establishes Strauss as an early modernist in an examination of Macbeth; Michael Steinberg probes the composer's political sensibility as expressed in the 1930s through his music and use of such texts as Friedenstag and Daphne; Bryan Gilliam discusses the genesis of both the text and the music in the final scene of Daphne; Timothy Jackson in his thorough source study argues for a new addition to the so-called Four Last Songs. Among the correspondence are previously untranslated letters between Strauss and his post-Hofmannsthal librettist, Joseph Gregor. The memoirs range from early biographical sketches to Rudolf Hartmann's moving account of his last visit with Strauss shortly before the composer's death. Critical reviews include recently translated essays by Theodor Adorno, Guido Adler, Paul Bekker, and Julius Korngold. |
| LCCN | 92015748 |
| ISBN | 0691091463 : |
| ISBN | 0691027625 (pbk.) : |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Music | Music Stacks | ML410.S93 R44 1992 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |