Chris Walton

Music and Desire among the Austro-German Romantics

Beethoven, Schubert, Wagner, Brahms, and the Schumanns. Sprachen: Englisch. 23,5 cm / 15,7 cm / 2,0 cm ( B/H/T )
Buch (Hardcover), 278 Seiten
EAN 9781648251108
Veröffentlicht Juni 2025
Verlag/Hersteller University of Rochester Press
110,10 inkl. MwSt.
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Investigates the composition and reception of works by key Romantics such as Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Wagner and the Schumanns with attention to the role of sexual desire in the composers' lives and music.
Scholars have for several decades been devoting increasing attention to aspects of sexuality and desire in the music of the Austro-German Romantics. Undertaking a close analysis of the sources, the four chapters of this book show how our assumptions about what those composers desired are often in fact contingent on what we, their commentators, have wanted them to desire over the course of reception history. Beethoven's Fidelio and Schubert's Winterreise tend to be regarded as a hymn to freedom, on the one hand, and an interior monologue of an alienated lover, on the other, though in neither case does such a view correspond to what the composer intended. In contrast, Richard Wagner dismissed his own opera The Ban on Love as a youthful indiscretion extolling the "free love" of the Young German movement; but he was reinterpreting an early work to align it with his later aesthetic.
The final chapter examines the chronology of the friendship of Robert and Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms in order to discern the likely truths about their triangular relationship before and after Robert Schumann's incarceration in a mental asylum. By adhering to the sources and placing them in the social, linguistic, and geographical contexts of their time, author Chris Walton grants all these protagonists a greater agency of desire than has hitherto been the case.

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Chris Walton

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Hope for Ludwig in Leonore's never-land 2. The lonely passions of Schubert's winter swagman 3. Banns of love: bourgeois longings in Wagner's Das Liebesverbot 4. The talented Mr. Brahms, Clara's fullest friend Afterword Bibliography Index

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