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Four Last Songs - Aging and Creativity in Verdi, Strauss, Messiaen, and Britten (Paperback)
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Four Last Songs - Aging and Creativity in Verdi, Strauss, Messiaen, and Britten (Paperback)
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Aging and creativity can seem a particularly fraught relationship
for artists, who often face age-related difficulties as their
audience's expectations are at a peak. In Four Last Songs, Linda
and Michael Hutcheon explore this issue via the late works of some
of the world's greatest composers. Giuseppe Verdi (1813 1901),
Richard Strauss (1864 1949), Olivier Messiaen (1908 92), and
Benjamin Britten (1913 76) all wrote operas late in life, pieces
that reveal unique responses to the challenges of growing older.
Verdi's Falstaff, his only comedic success, combated Richard
Wagner's influence by introducing young Italian composers to a new
model of national music. Strauss, on the other hand, struggling
with personal and political problems in Nazi Germany, composed the
self-reflexive Capriccio, a "life review" of opera and his own
legacy. Though it exhausted him physically and emotionally,
Messiaen at the age of seventy-five finished his only opera, Saint
Fran ois d'Assise, which marked the pinnacle of his career.
Britten, meanwhile, suffering from heart problems, refused surgery
until he had completed his masterpiece, Death in Venice. For all
four composers, age, far from sapping their creative power,
provided impetus for some of their best accomplishments. With its
deft treatment of these composers' final years and works, Four Last
Songs provides a valuable look at the challenges and opportunities
that present themselves as artists grow older.
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