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The Ballet Collaborations of Richard Strauss (Hardcover)
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The Ballet Collaborations of Richard Strauss (Hardcover)
Series: Eastman Studies in Music
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A richly interdisciplinary study of Strauss's contributions to
ballet, his collaboration with prominent dance artists of his time,
and his explorations of musical modernism. Richard Strauss
contributed music to several ballets during his career,
collaborating with prominent dance artists of his time. His ballets
include an unfinished Die Insel Kythere (The Island of Cythera),
1900], inspired by French Rococo paintings; Josephslegende (The
Legend of Joseph, 1914), choreographed by Leonide Massine for the
Ballets Russes; a 1923 Ballettsoiree with dances by Heinrich
Kroeller, showcasing the Vienna Ballet and including Strauss's
arrangements of music by Francois Couperin; Schlagobers (Whipped
Cream, 1924), a "Comic Viennese Ballet" choreographed by Kroeller;
and Verklungene Feste: Tanzvisionen aus Zwei Jahrhunderten (Faded
Celebrations: Dance Visions from Two Centuries, 1941), premiered in
Munich with meta-historical dances by the dancer-choreographer team
Pia and Pino Mlakar. In The Ballet Collaborations of Richard
Strauss, Heisler considers Strauss's ballet scores alongside story,
mise-en-scene, and choreography, revealing Strauss's shift from a
parodic conception of classical dance in the years leading up to
World War I to a belatedobsession with Romantic-era ballet in its
aftermath. Heisler explores issues central to Strauss's
relationship to modernism: his mining in Die Insel Kythere (1900)
of the decorative aspects of dance, suggesting a shared sensibility
with fin-de-siecle Jugendstil and a critique of Romanticism; the
dynamics of collective creation and Strauss's penchant for parody
in relation to Josephslegende (1914); his stance on interwar
cultural politics through the 1923 Ballettsoiree and Schlagobers
(1924); and Verklungene Feste (1941) as this composer's autumnal
meditation on the conceit of music and dance as vehicles for
transcendence. The Ballet Collaborations of Richard Strauss is a
richly interdisciplinary study that promises to nuance the popular,
critical, and academic reception of this ever-popular composer.
Wayne Heisler Jr. is Assistant Professor and Coordinator of
Historical and Cultural Studies in Music at The College of New
Jersey.
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