Rounding Wagner's Mountain: Richard Strauss and Modern German Opera (Cambridg...

Name: Rounding Wagner's Mountain: Richard Strauss and Modern German Opera (Cambridg...
Brand: Cambridge University Press

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Rounding Wagner's Mountain: Richard Strauss and Modern German Opera (Cambridge Studies in Opera) [Hardcover] Gilliam, Bryan\n\nProduct Overview\nRichard Strauss' fifteen operas, which span the years 1893 to 1941, make up\nthe largest German operatic legacy since Wagner's operas of the nineteenth\ncentury. Many of Strauss's works were based on texts by Europe's finest\nwriters: Oscar Wilde, Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Stefan Zweig, among others,\nand they also overlap some of the most important and tumultuous stretches of\nGerman history, such as the founding and demise of a German empire, the rise\nand fall of the Weimar Republic, the period of National Socialism, and the\npost-war years, which saw a divided East and West Germany. In the first book\nto discuss all Strauss's operas, Bryan Gilliam sets each work in its\nhistorical, aesthetic, philosophical, and literary context to reveal what made\nthe composer's legacy unique. Addressing Wagner's cultural influence upon this\nlegacy, Gi-