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Author: Lydia Goehr
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 0231137540
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'The Don Giovanni Movement' examines the aesthetic and moral legacy of Mozart's operatic masterpiece in the literature, philosophy, and culture of the nineteenth century. Deeply rooted in the enlightenment and romanticism, the opera functions as icon andmyth, and its tensions still resonate today.
Author: Lydia Goehr
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2006-08-08
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 0231510640
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMozart's Don Giovanni is an operatic masterpiece full of iconic and mythical tensions that still resonate today. The work redefines the terms of power, seduction, and morality, and the resulting conflict between the aesthetic and the ethical is deeply rooted in the Enlightenment and romanticism. The Don Giovanni Moment is the first book to examine the aesthetic and moral legacy of Mozart's opera in the literature, philosophy, and culture of the nineteenth century. The prominent scholars in this collection address the opera's impact on the philosophical visions of Kierkegaard, Goethe, and Williams and its influence on the literary and dramatic works of Pushkin, Hoffmann, Mörike, Byron, Wagner, Strauss, and Shaw. Through a close and careful analysis of Don Giovanni's literary and philosophical reception and its many appropriations, rewritings, and retellings, these contributors treat the opera as a vantage point from which theory and philosophy can reconsider romanticism's central themes. As lively and passionate as the opera itself, these essays continue the spirited debate over the meaning and character of Don Giovanni and its powerful legacy. Together they prove that Mozart's brilliant artistic achievement is as potent and relevant today as when it was first performed two centuries ago.
Author: Lydia Goehr
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 0231137559
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMozart's Don Giovanni is an operatic masterpiece full of iconic and mythical tensions that still resonate today. The work redefines the terms of power, seduction, and morality, and the resulting conflict between the aesthetic and the ethical is deeply rooted in the Enlightenment and romanticism. The Don Giovanni Moment is the first book to examine the aesthetic and moral legacy of Mozart's opera in the literature, philosophy, and culture of the nineteenth century. The prominent scholars in this collection address the opera's impact on the philosophical visions of Kierkegaard, Goethe, and Williams and its influence on the literary and dramatic works of Pushkin, Hoffmann, Mörike, Byron, Wagner, Strauss, and Shaw. Through a close and careful analysis of Don Giovanni's literary and philosophical reception and its many appropriations, rewritings, and retellings, these contributors treat the opera as a vantage point from which theory and philosophy can reconsider romanticism's central themes. As lively and passionate as the opera itself, these essays continue the spirited debate over the meaning and character of Don Giovanni and its powerful legacy. Together they prove that Mozart's brilliant artistic achievement is as potent and relevant today as when it was first performed two centuries ago.
Author: Anthony J. Rudel
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780871138279
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMozart's wife, Constanze, for one, with a devoted heart but a feisty spirit, is unabashedly fascinated by the elegant and understanding Casanova."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Magnus Tessing Schneider
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-11-16
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 1000510530
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Original Portrayal of Mozart’s Don Giovanni offers an original reading of Mozart’s and Da Ponte’s opera Don Giovanni, using as a lens the portrayal of the title role by its creator, the baritone Luigi Bassi (1766–1825). Although Bassi was coached in the role by the composer himself, his portrayal has never been studied in depth before, and this book presents a large number of new sources (first- and second-hand accounts), which allows us to reconstruct his performance scene by scene. The book confronts Bassi’s portrayal with a study of the opera’s early German reception and performance history, demonstrating how Don Giovanni as we know it today was not only created by Mozart, Da Ponte and Luigi Bassi but also by the early German adapters, translators, critics and performers who turned the title character into the arrogant and violent villain we still encounter in most of today’s stage productions. Incorporating discussion of dramaturgical thinking of the late Enlightenment and the difficult moral problems that the opera raises, this is an important study for scholars and researchers from opera studies, theatre and performance studies, music history as well as conductors, directors and singers.
Author: David Damschroder
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-08-16
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 1107025346
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInnovative analytical techniques provide a penetrating view of how Haydn and Mozart employ harmony in their compositions.
Author: Burton, Fisher D. Publishing Staff
Publisher: Opera Journeys Publishing
Published: 2000-04
Total Pages: 33
ISBN-13: 0967397332
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Burton D. Fisher
Publisher: Opera Journeys Publishing
Published: 2001-08-15
Total Pages: 33
ISBN-13: 1102009180
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Wye Jamison Allanbrook
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2016-05-06
Total Pages: 409
ISBN-13: 022643771X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWye Jamison Allanbrook’s widely influential Rhythmic Gesture in Mozart challenges the view that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s music was a “pure play” of key and theme, more abstract than that of his predecessors. Allanbrook’s innovative work shows that Mozart used a vocabulary of symbolic gestures and musical rhythms to reveal the nature of his characters and their interrelations. The dance rhythms and meters that pervade his operas conveyed very specific meanings to the audiences of the day.
Author: Rodney Bolt
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2008-12-11
Total Pages: 460
ISBN-13: 1596919825
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1805, Lorenzo Da Ponte was the proprietor of a small grocery store in New York. But since his birth into an Italian Jewish family in 1749, he had already been a priest, a poet, the lover of many women, a scandalous Enlightenment thinker banned from teaching in Venice, the librettist for three of Mozart's most sublime operas, a collaborator with Salieri, a friend of Casanova, and a favorite of Emperor Joseph II. He would go on to establish New York City's first opera house and be the first professor of Italian at Columbia University. An inspired innovator but a hopeless businessman, who loved with wholehearted loyalty and recklessness, Da Ponte was one of the early immigrants to live out the American dream. In Rodney Bolt's rollicking and extensively researched biography, Da Ponte's picaresque life takes readers from Old World courts and the back streets of Venice, Vienna, and London to the New World promise of New York City. Two hundred and fifty years after Mozart's birth, the life and legacy of his librettist Da Ponte are as astonishing as ever.
