An exploration of avant-garde music and operatic form in Weimar
Germany Weimar Germany -- the age of Bauhaus and Brecht -- was a
time of significant activity in all areas of the artistic
avant-garde. Musicologist Susan Cook explores this intriguing
period in a look at Zeitoper (topical opera)and its primary
exponents, Ernst Krenek, Kurt Weill and Paul Hindemith. Zeitoper
has proved to be of importance as an experimental form that
broadened the definition of modern opera and musical theatre,
incorporating elements previously thought unsuitable. Celebrating
modern life in its libretti, its scores borrowed heavily from
American dance music and jazz. Opera for a New Republic is the
first book to provide a broad historical,cultural and artistic
context for the development of this operatic genre. Through it we
learn that Zeitoper, although short-lived, has proved to be a vital
component in the development of twentieth-century operatic style.
Susan Cook is Professor of Musicology at the University of
Wisconsin.
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