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The Politics of Appropriation - German Romantic Music and the Ancient Greek Legacy (Hardcover)
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The Politics of Appropriation - German Romantic Music and the Ancient Greek Legacy (Hardcover)
Series: The New Cultural History of Music Series
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The Politics of Appropriation uncovers a largely forgotten chapter
in music history by considering the intersection of music and
Hellenism in nineteenth-century Germany. While the influence of
Greece on the literature, art, architecture, and philosophy of this
period has been much discussed, its significance for music has
received considerably less attention. Beginning in 1841 with Felix
Mendelssohn's wildly popular score for the groundbreaking Prussian
court production of Sophocles' Antigone, author Jason Geary draws
on research from the fields of musicology, history, classical
studies, and theater studies, to explore the trend of combining
music and Greek tragedy that also included productions of
Euripides' Medea, Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus, and Sophocles'
celebrated Oedipus the King with music by Wilhelm Taubert,
Mendelssohn, and Franz Lachner, respectively. Staged at royal
courts in Berlin and Munich, these productions reflect an effort by
the rulers who commissioned them to appropriate the legacy of
Greece for the creation of a German cultural and national identity,
while the music involved seemed to its contemporaries to mark the
advent of an entirely new Romantic genre. By drawing a line between
these compositions and Wagner's very different approach to
recovering classical tragedy, Geary offers a reassessment of the
composer's reception of the Greeks, highlighting the degree to
which he was reacting against works such as Mendelssohn's Antigone
when he called for the creation of a music drama rooted in the
spirit of Attic tragedy. Geary further argues that Wagner's Ring
cycle can be understood as the composer's attempt to reclaim the
mythic significance of the Oedipus myth in the service of his own
aesthetic aims. Placing these developments within the context of
Germany's longstanding obsession with Greece, The Politics of
Appropriation demonstrates the enduring significance of antiquity
as a trope that helped to shape the European cultural and artistic
landscape of the nineteenth century.
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