Mendelssohn, Goethe, and the Walpurgis Night by John Michael ... - 9781580463683

Mendelssohn, Goethe, and the Walpurgis NightThe Heathen Muse in European Culture, 1700-1850\nAuthor(s): John Michael Cooper\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United States\nImprint: University of Rochester Press\nISBN-13: 9781580463683, 978-1580463683\nSynopsis\nThe first in-depth study of Mendelssohn's two settings of Goethe's Die erste Walpurgisnacht, in the context of scenes from Goethe's Faust and other works.\n\nThis paperback edition of Mendelssohn, Goethe, and the Walpurgis Night addresses tolerance and acceptance in the face of cultural, political, and religious strife. Its point of departure is the Walpurgis Night. The Night, also known as Beltane or May Eve, was supposedly an annual witches' Sabbath that centered around the Brocken, the highest peak of the Harz Mountains.\n After exploring how a notoriously pagan celebration came to be named after the Christian missionary St. Walpurgis (ca. [tel], John Michael Cooper discusses the Night's treatments i.