Music in Goethe's <I>Faust</I>: Goethe's <I>Faust</I> in Music

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Music in Goethe's Faust

Goethe's Faust in Music

Edited by: Lorraine Byrne Bodley
With contributions by: Christopher Ruth , Christopher Ruth , David G Robb , Eftychia Papanikolaou , Glenn Stanley , Heather Hadlock , J Tudor , John Guthrie , John Michael Cooper , Lorraine Byrne Bodley , Mark Austin , Mark Fitzgerald , Martin Swales , Nicholas Boyle , Osman Durrani , Siobhán Donovan , Ursula Kramer and Waltraud Maierhofer

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2017

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Goethe's Faust, a work which has attracted the attention of composers since the late eighteenth century and played a vital role in the evolution of vocal, operatic and instrumental repertoire in the nineteenth century, hashad a seminal impact in musical realms.

That Goethe's poetry has proved pivotal for the development of the nineteenth-century Lied has long been acknowledged. Less acknowledged is the seminal impact in musical realms of Goethe's Faust, a work which has attractedthe attention of composers since the late eighteenth century and played a vital role in the evolution of vocal, operatic and instrumental repertoire in the nineteenth century. While Goethe longed to have Faust set to musicand considered only Mozart and perhaps Meyerbeer as being equal to the task, by the end of his life he had abandoned hope that he would live to witness a musical setting of his text. Despite this, a floodtide of musical interpretations of Goethe's Faust came into existence from Beethoven to Schubert, Schumann to Wagner and Mahler, and Gounod to Berlioz; and a broad trajectory can be traced from Zelter's colourful description of the first setting ofGoethe's Faust to Alfred Schnittke's Faust opera (1993).
This book explores the musical origins of Goethe's Faust and the musical dimensions of its legacy. It uncovers the musical furore caused by Goethe's Faust and considers why his polemical text has resonated so strongly with composers. Bringing together leading musicologists and Germanists, the book addresses a wide range of issues including reception history, the performative challenges of writing music for Faust, the impact of the legend on composers' conceptual thinking, and the ways in which it has been used by composers to engage with other contemporary intellectual concepts. Constituting the richest examination to date of the musicality of language and form in Goethe's Faust and its musical rendering from the eighteenth to twenty-first centuries, the book will appeal to music, literary and Goethe scholars and students alike.

LORRAINE BYRNE BODLEY is Senior Lecturer in Musicology at Maynooth University and President of the Society for Musicology in Ireland.

Contributors: Mark Austin, Lorraine Byrne Bodley, NicholasBoyle, John Michael Cooper, Siobhán Donovan, Osman Durrani, Mark Fitzgerald, John Guthrie, Heather Hadlock, Julian Horton, Ursula Kramer, Waltraud Meierhofer, Eftychia Papanikolaou, David Robb, Christopher Ruth, Glenn Stanley, Martin Swales, J. M. Tudor

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Contributor: David G Robb DAVID ROBB is Senior Lecturer in Music at Queens University Belfast. --- Contributor: Siobhán Donovan SIOBHÁN DONOVAN is Lecturer in German Studies at University College Dublin.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
List of Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Acknowledgements Lorraine Byrne Bodley Publicly Available Download PDF	xvii
Abbreviations used in the notes Publicly Available Download PDF	xx
Introduction Rhapsody and Rebuke: Goethe’s Faust in Music Lorraine Byrne Bodley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
PART I Goethe’s Faust Content and Context
1 The Redress of Goethe’s Faust in Music History Lorraine Byrne Bodley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	21
2 Wagering on Modernity: Goethe’s Eighteenth-Century Faust Nicholas Boyle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	45
3 Reflectivity, Music and the Modern Condition: Thoughts on Goethe’s Faust Martin Swales Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	61
4 Music and Metaphorical Thinking in Goethe’s Faust: The Example of Harmony J.M. Tudor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	73
5 Faust: The Instrumentalisation of an Icon Osman Durrani Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	86
PART II Legacies Goethe’s Faust in the Nineteenth Century
6 Faust’s Schubert: Schubert’s Faust John Michael Cooper Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	99
7 The Musical Novel as Master-genre: Schumann’s Szenen aus Goethes Faust Julian Horton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	117
8 The Psychology of Schumann’s Faust: Developing the Human Soul Christopher Ruth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	137
9 A Life with Goethe: Wagner’s Engagement with Faust in Music and in Words Glenn Stanley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	155
10 Wagner’s Ninth: Reading Beethoven with Faust Mark Austin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	172
11 Linking Christian and Faustian Utopias: Mahler’s Setting of the Schlußszene in his Eighth Symphony Eftychia Papanikolaou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	183
PART III Topographies Stagings and Critical Reception
12 Operatic Translation and Adaptation: Gounod’s Faust, with a Tribute to Ken Russell Siobhán Donovan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	199
13 ‘Adapters, Falsifiers and Profiteers’: Staging La Damnation de Faust in Monte Carlo and Paris, 1893–1903 Heather Hadlock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	214
14 Faust in the Trenches: Busoni’s Doktor Faust Mark Fitzgerald Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	230
PART IV New Directions Recent Productions and Appropriations
15 As Goethe Intended? Max Reinhardt’s Faust Productions and the Aesthetics of Incidental Music in the Early Twentieth Century Ursula Kramer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	243
16 Music and the Rebirth of Faust in the GDR David Robb Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	262
17 Music, Text and Stage: Peter Stein’s Production of Goethe’s Faust John Guthrie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	276
18 ‘Devilishly good’: Rudolf Volz’s Rock Opera Faust and ‘Event Culture’ Waltraud Maierhofer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	289
Select Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	305
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	326

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February 28, 2024

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9781787440227

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https://doi.org/10.1515/9781787440227

eBook ISBN: 9781787440227

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poetry; literature; English; music; composition; musicology; history; music theory; German; linguistics; education; scholar; academia; nineteenth century; Germany

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For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research

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