Martin Nedbal

Morality and Viennese Opera in the Age of Mozart and Beethoven

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores how the Enlightenment aesthetics of theater as a moral institution influenced cultural politics and operatic developments in Vienna between the mid-eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The idea that vernacular theater should cultivate the moral sensibilities of its German-speaking audiences became prominent during the reign of Empress Maria Theresa. The imperial government promoted good morals in theatrical performances through the institution of theater censorship, and German-opera authors cultivated intensely didactic works (such as Die Zauberflöte and Fidelio) that eventually became the cornerstones for later developments of German culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781472476579
• ISBN-10: 1472476573
• Artikelnr.: 47546134

Autorenporträt

Martin Nedbal is Assistant Professor of Musicology at the University of Kansas. He has published numerous articles on Central European opera, particularly the works of Mozart, Beethoven, Smetana, and Dvöák. His research has been supported by grants from the American Musicological Society and the Austrian Scholarship Foundation.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Music Examples List of Tables Preface Introduction. Opera and
Didacticism in Early-Modern German Culture Chapter 1. Cultivating the Court
and the Nation in Gluck's La rencontre imprévue Chapter 2. Die Entführung
aus dem Serail and the Didactic Aesthetics of the National Singspiel
Chapter 3. Morality and Germanness in Die Zauberflöte Chapter 4. Die
Zauberflöte and Subversive Morality in Suburban Operas Chapter 5.The
Politics of Morality at the Court Theater in the Late 1790s Chapter 6. How
German is Fidelio? Didacticism in Beethovenian Operas Epilogue Bibliography