Martin Nedbal

Mozart's Operas and National Politics (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

As both an in-depth study of Mozart criticism and performance practice in Prague, and a history of how eighteenth-century opera was appropriated by later political movements and social groups, this book explores the reception of Mozart's operas in Prague between 1791 and the present and reveals the profound influence of politics on the construction of the Western musical canon. Tracing the links between performances of Mozart's operas and strategies that Bohemian musicians, critics, directors, musicologists, and politicians used to construct modern Czech and German identities, Nedbal explores the history of the canonization process from the perspective of a city that has often been regarded as peripheral to mainstream Western music history. Individual chapters focus on Czech and German adaptations of Mozart's operas for Prague's theaters, operatic criticism published in Prague's Czech and German journals, the work of Bohemian historians interpreting Mozart, and endeavours of cultural activists to construct monuments in recognition of the composer.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. August 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009257633
• Artikelnr.: 68994897

Autorenporträt

Martin Nedbal is Associate Professor of Musicology at the University of Kansas. He is the author of Morality and Viennese Opera in the Age of Mozart and Beethoven (Routledge, 2016) and translator and editor of The Published Theoretical Works of Leo Janá¿ek (Editio Janá¿ek, 2020).

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Authenticity and Ethnicity: 1. Werktreue, patriotism, and nationalism in Prague productions of Mozart's operas
2. Mozart and ethnic identity
Part II. Monuments and Politics: 3. Bertramka and the politics of Prague's Mozart monuments
4. La clemenza di Tito and the Habsburg dynasty in Bohemia, 1791¿1891
Part III. Translations and Adaptations: 5. Wenzel Mihule and Don Giovanni
6. Die Zauberflöte and Czech National theater.