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A study of Strauss's orchestral activity from the perspective of late-19th-century German intellectual history.

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Recommended for those who like musicology dosed with philosophy.39.4 Dec. 2006

* The Opera Journal *

Table of Contents

Contents
Intellectual History and Artistic Production: The Case of Richard Strauss
Part I. The Private Intellectual Context of Strauss's Early Career
1. "The Conversion": Strauss and Wagnerism
2. Music and the "Denial of the Will": Schopenhauer in Strauss's Life and Work
3. Strauss's Nietzsche
4. Goethe and the Development of Strauss's Mature Worldview
Part II. Orchestral Composition as Philosophical Critique
5. The First Cycle of Tone Poems: Genesis of a Critical Musical Technique
6. Eulenspiegel, Zarathustra, Quixote, Strauss: Crystallization of a Persona
7. Absolute Music, Twentieth-Century Aesthetics, and the Symphonies of
Richard Strauss
Notes
Works Cited
Index

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      Publisher: Indiana University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 07/07/2005
      ISBN13: 9780253345738, 978-0253345738
      ISBN10: 0253345731

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A study of Strauss's orchestral activity from the perspective of late-19th-century German intellectual history.

      Trade Review

      Recommended for those who like musicology dosed with philosophy.39.4 Dec. 2006

      * The Opera Journal *

      Table of Contents

      Contents
      Intellectual History and Artistic Production: The Case of Richard Strauss
      Part I. The Private Intellectual Context of Strauss's Early Career
      1. "The Conversion": Strauss and Wagnerism
      2. Music and the "Denial of the Will": Schopenhauer in Strauss's Life and Work
      3. Strauss's Nietzsche
      4. Goethe and the Development of Strauss's Mature Worldview
      Part II. Orchestral Composition as Philosophical Critique
      5. The First Cycle of Tone Poems: Genesis of a Critical Musical Technique
      6. Eulenspiegel, Zarathustra, Quixote, Strauss: Crystallization of a Persona
      7. Absolute Music, Twentieth-Century Aesthetics, and the Symphonies of
      Richard Strauss
      Notes
      Works Cited
      Index

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