The young Richard Strauss was almost exclusively an orchestral
composer. Yet, the year 1903 brought a significant break from
orchestral writing, and Strauss then shifted his focus to opera for
the next four decades. In the aftermath of the Second World War he
returned to orchestral music, having first served and then been
summarily dismissed by the Third Reich. Despite its enduring appeal
among concert audiences, and the intriguing pattern of his
compositional career, Richard Strauss's orchestral music has yet to
receive the scholarly consideration it deserves.
Richard Strauss's Orchestral Music and the German Intellectual
Tradition breaks new ground in Straussian studies. Youmans provides
a provocative investigation of Strauss's private intellectual life
and its impact on the brilliant music he created during the
formation of his worldview. The composer's works have traditionally
been viewed as a product of high German Romanticism, yet Youmans
demonstrates that Strauss's entire body of orchestral music can be
read as a history of his struggle with specific
intellectual-historical concerns. Exploring the significant
influences of Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Goethe, and Wagner on the
young composer, Youmans insightfully establishes that the cultural
convictions and preconceptions which grounded the composer's
artistic choices in fact provided him with the philosophical and
musical materials that formed the basis of an early modernism.
Through this grounding, the mature Strauss succeeded in opening up
a new aesthetic frontier devoted to optimism, physicality, and the
visual.
General
Imprint: |
Indiana University Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
July 2005 |
First published: |
June 2005 |
Authors: |
Charles Youmans
|
Dimensions: |
235 x 155 x 24mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
|
Pages: |
312 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-253-34573-8 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
0-253-34573-1 |
Barcode: |
9780253345738 |
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