The politics of appropriation : German romantic music and the ancient Greek legacy /

This text explores the intersection of music and Hellenism in 19th-century Germany. It shows how productions such as that of the Prussian court of Sophocles' Antigone with music by Felix Mendelssohn reflect an effort by the rulers who commissioned them to appropriate the legacy of Greece for th...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Geary, Jason (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Series:New cultural history of music.
Subjects:
1800-1899
Dramatic music > Germany > 19th century > History and criticism.
Greek drama (Tragedy) > Appreciation > Germany.
Musique de scène > Allemagne > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Tragédie grecque > Appréciation > Allemagne.
Dramatic music.
Greek drama (Tragedy) > Appreciation.
Germany.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Ancient Greece and the German cultural imagination
  • Mendelssohn's Antigone and the rebirth of Greek tragedy
  • The reception of Antigone and the aesthetics of appropriation
  • The growth of a genre : Taubert's Medea and the Greek stage revival in Berlin
  • Mendelssohn and Oedipus in the age of Chistianity
  • Lachner and the emergence of a new Athens
  • The Wagnerian turn
  • Epilogue : the decline of a genre.

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