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"Rethinking Britten offers a fresh portrait of one of the most widely performed composers of the 20th century. In twelve essays, a diverse group of contributors--both established authorities and leading younger voices--explore a significant portion of Benjamin Britten's extensive oeuvre across a range of genres, including opera, song cycle, and concert music. Well informed by earlier writings on the composer's professional career and private life, Rethinking Britten also uncovers many fresh lines of inquiry, from the Lord Chamberlain's last-minute censorship of the Rape of Lucretia libretto to psychoanalytic understandings of Britten's staging of gender roles; from the composer's delight in schoolboy humor to his operatic revival of Purcellian dance rhythms; from his creative responses to Cold-War-era internationalism to his dealings with BBC Television. Each essay blends awareness of overarching contexts with insights into particular expressive achievements. Balancing biographical, archival, and analytic commentary with cultural and historical criticism, Rethinking Britten broadens the interpretive context surrounding all phases of Britten's career and is essential reading for scholars and fans alike."--back cover.

Opera --- Music --- Opéra --- Musique --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Britten, Benjamin, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Opéra --- Britten, Benjamin --- Britten, Edward Benjamin --- Britten, Benjamin E.

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The music of Gustav Mahler repeatedly engages with Romantic notions of redemption. This is expressed in a range of gestures and procedures, shifting between affirmative fulfilment and pessimistic negation. In this groundbreaking study, Stephen Downes explores the relationship of this aspect of Mahler's music to the output of Benjamin Britten, Kurt Weill and Hans Werner Henze. Their initial admiration was notably dissonant with the prevailing Zeitgeist - Britten in 1930s England, Weill in 1920s Germany and Henze in 1950s Germany and Italy. Downes argues that Mahler's music struck a profound chord with them because of the powerful manner in which it raises and intensifies dystopian and utopian complexes and probes the question of fulfilment or redemption, an ambition manifest in ambiguous tonal, temporal and formal processes. Comparisons of the ways in which this topic is evoked facilitate new interpretative insights into the music of these four major composers.

Music --- History and criticism --- Britten, Benjamin --- Henze, Hans Werner, --- Mahler, Gustav, --- Weill, Kurt, --- Ṿail, Ḳurṭ, --- Weil, Kurt, --- Weill, Kurt --- וייל, קורט --- Mahler, Gustav --- Maler, Gustav, --- Maler, G. --- Mārā, Gusutafu, --- Henze, Heinz-Werner --- Henze, H. W. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Influence. --- History and criticism. --- Britten, Benjamin, --- Britten, Edward Benjamin --- Britten, Benjamin E.

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Published in 1913, Thomas Mann's Death in Venice is one of the most widely read novellas in any language. In the 1970s, Benjamin Britten adapted it into an opera, and Luchino Visconti turned it into a successful film. Reading these works from a philosophical perspective, Philip Kitcher connects the predicament of the novella's central character to Western thought's most compelling questions. In Mann's story, the author Gustav von Aschenbach becomes captivated by an adolescent boy, first seen on the lido in Venice, the eventual site of Aschenbach's own death. Mann works through central concerns about how to live, explored with equal intensity by his German predecessors, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. Kitcher considers how Mann's, Britten's, and Visconti's treatments illuminate the tension between social and ethical values and an artist's sensitivity to beauty. Each work asks whether a life devoted to self-sacrifice in the pursuit of lasting achievements can be sustained and whether the breakdown of discipline undercuts its worth. Haunted by the prospect of his death, Aschenbach also helps us reflect on whether it is possible to achieve anything in full awareness of our finitude and in knowing our successes are always incomplete.

Philosophy in literature. --- Mann, Thomas, --- literatuur --- Duitsland --- Mann Thomas --- Britten Benjamin --- Der Tod in Venedig --- Dood in Venetië --- 7.01 --- filosofie --- kunst en filosofie --- film --- Visconti Luchino --- film en muziek --- film en literatuur --- film en kunst --- kunst en film --- kunst en muziek --- kunst en literatuur --- Mahler Gustav --- kunsttheorie --- kunst