The artist-operas of Pfitzner, Krenek, and Hindemith
The artist-operas of Pfitzner, Krenek, and Hindemith: politics and the ideology of the artist Claire Taylor-Jay
Publisher: Aldershot, Hants, England ; Ashgate, 2004.
ISBN: 0754605787
DDC: 782.1092243
LCC: ML3918
Edition: (alk. paper)
Summary:
"This is the first book-length study of the genre of 'artist-opera',
in which the work's central character is an artist who is
uncomfortable with his place in the world. It investigates how three
such operas (Pfitzner's Palestrina (1915), Krenek's Jonny spielt auf
(1926) and Hindemith's Mathis der Maler (1935)) contributed to the
debate in early twentieth-century Germany about the place of art and
the artist in modern society, and examines how far the
artist-character may be taken as functioning as a persona for the
real composer of the work. Because of their concern with the place of
art within society, the works are also engaged with inherently
political questions, and each opera is read in the light of the
political context of its time: conservatism circa World War I,
Americanism and democracy, and the rise of National Socialism."--BOOK
JACKET.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-219) and index.
1. Introduction -- 2. Pfitzner, Palestrina, and the nonpolitical
composer -- 3. Krenek spielt auf: Jonny, jazz and the modern composer
-- 4. Painting and politics in Hindemith's Mathis der Maler -- 5.
Conclusion: artistic identity as performative.
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