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ISBN-10: 0520251482
ISBN-13: 9780520251489
Publisher: University of California Press
Publish Date: 02/01/2007
Dimensions: 8.94" L, 6.30" W, 0.94" H

German Modernism: Music and the Arts Volume 3

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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.

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"In a brilliant and original synthesis of developments in music, art, and literature, German Modernism offers an important new reading of the years of transition between romanticism and modernism. Frisch's study is essential reading for anyone interested in why and how twentieth-century music developed as it did."
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Details

ISBN-10: 0520251482
ISBN-13: 9780520251489
Publisher: University of California Press
Publish Date: 02/01/2007
Dimensions: 8.94" L, 6.30" W, 0.94" H
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