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Mendelssohn, Goethe, and the Walpurgis night : the heathen muse in European culture, 1700-1850
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Mendelssohn, Goethe, and the Walpurgis night : the heathen muse in European culture, 1700-1850 / John Michael Cooper.
ISBN
9781580462525 (hardcover)
1580462529
Published
Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2007.
Physical Description
xvi, 284 p. : ill., music ; 24 cm.
Format
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 29, 2007
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-274 ) and index.
Contents
The cultural and religious prehistories
Tolerance, translation, and acceptance : Goethe's and Mendelssohn's voices in European cultural discourse to ca. 1850
Reality and illusion, past and present : Goethe and the Walpurgisnacht
The composition, revision, and publication of Mendelssohn's Die erste Walpurgisnacht
The sources, structure, and narrative of Mendelssohn's Walpurgisnacht settings
At the crossroads of identity : critical and artistic responses to Goethe's and Mendelssohn's Walpurgisnacht treatments
Performing identity and alterity : Die erste Walpurgisnacht then and now.
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