John Warrack, Warrack John

German Opera

From the Beginnings to Wagner
Herausgeber: Groos, Arthur

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Produktbeschreibung

German opera from its primitive origins up to Wagner is the subject of this wide-ranging history, the only one of its kind in any language. It traces the growth of the humble Singspiel into a vehicle for the genius of Mozart and Beethoven, together with the persistent attempts at German Grand Opera. The many operas studied are placed in their historical, social and theatrical context, and attention is paid to the literary, artistic and philosophical ideas that made them part of the country's intellectual history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 748g
• ISBN-13: 9780521027939
• ISBN-10: 0521027934
• Artikelnr.: 21957033

Autorenporträt

John Warrack has been the Music Critic of The Sunday Telegraph and Lecturer in Music at the University of Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Map: centres of German opera
1. Sixteenth-century beginnings
2. The Thirty Years War and its aftermath
3. The Hamburg enterprise
4. Travelling troupes and changing attitudes
5. From the Seven Years War to the French Revolution
6. The Viennese Singspiel
7. Mozart's German operas
8. From the French Revolution to the turn of the century
9. French opera in Germany after the Revolution
10. New critics and singers
11. Opera in a new century: the first decade (I)
12. Opera in a new century: the first decade (II)
13. The growth of Romantic and grand opera
14. Romantic opera and grand opera in the 1820s (I)
15. Romantic opera and grand opera in the 1820s (II)
16. Opera in the mid-nineteenth century (I)
Opera in the mid-nineteenth century (II)
18. Wagner
Appendix: list of operas
Bibliography
Index.