Stephen Downes

After Mahler

Britten, Weill, Henze and Romantic Redemption

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Produktbeschreibung

Stephen Downes examines the work of Britten, Weill and Henze to explore the significance of Gustav Mahler for twentieth-century music.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 287
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 177mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 708g
• ISBN-13: 9781107008717
• ISBN-10: 1107008719
• Artikelnr.: 38611527

Autorenporträt

Stephen Downes is Professor of Music at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of two books on the music of Karol Szymanowski and won the Wilk Prize for Research in Polish Music (University of Southern California) and the Karol Szymanowski memorial medal. He is also the author of The Muse as Eros (2006), Music and Decadence in European Modernism (2010) and Hans Werne Henze: Tristan (2011).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Mahler's moment
2. Naïve and sentimental: Britten and Mahler
3. Real and surreal: shocks, dreams and temporality in the music of Weill and Mahler
4. Tyranny and freedom: Henze and Mahler.