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Opera and Modern Culture: Wagner and Strauss, and: German Modernism: Music and the Arts (review)
Ist Teil von
Modernism/Modernity, 2006, Vol.13 (4), p.765-768
Ort / Verlag
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2006
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Project MUSE
Beschreibungen/Notizen
In a brilliant combination of careful, if simple, musical analysis, historical contextualization (through study of correspondence), and criticism, Kramer argues that the music of the Lohengrin Prelude resists the composer's own attempts to impose an anti-Semitic reading (65). To begin a six-chapter book on modernism with an entire chapter on Wagner may seem an odd choice, but there is, whether we like it or not, no escaping him-whether we are studying the disjunctive between his advanced technique and his degenerate politics (12); Nietzsche's multifariously influential reaction against him (26); the naturalists' incorporation of Wagnerian psychology into an art interested in, if not exactly concerned for, contemporary social injustices (48); or Mann's unwittingly Straussian burlesque of Tristan und Isolde, whereby the romantic "sympathy with death" is exposed for what it is (196).