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After Mahler - Britten, Weill, Henze and Romantic Redemption (Hardcover, New)
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After Mahler - Britten, Weill, Henze and Romantic Redemption (Hardcover, New)
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The music of Gustav Mahler repeatedly engages with Romantic notions
of redemption. This is expressed in a range of gestures and
procedures, shifting between affirmative fulfilment and pessimistic
negation. In this groundbreaking study, Stephen Downes explores the
relationship of this aspect of Mahler's music to the output of
Benjamin Britten, Kurt Weill and Hans Werner Henze. Their initial
admiration was notably dissonant with the prevailing Zeitgeist -
Britten in 1930s England, Weill in 1920s Germany and Henze in 1950s
Germany and Italy. Downes argues that Mahler's music struck a
profound chord with them because of the powerful manner in which it
raises and intensifies dystopian and utopian complexes and probes
the question of fulfilment or redemption, an ambition manifest in
ambiguous tonal, temporal and formal processes. Comparisons of the
ways in which this topic is evoked facilitate new interpretative
insights into the music of these four major composers.
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