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Since its emergence in sixteenth-century Germany, the magician Faust's quest has become one of the most profound themes in Western history. Though variants are found across all media, few adaptations have met with greater acclaim than in music. Bringing together more than two dozen authors in a...

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Other Authors: Fitzsimmons, Lorna, 1957- (Editor), McKnight, Charles, 1949- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2019]
Series:Oxford handbooks.
Subjects:
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, > 1749-1832. > Faust.
Faust > (Legendary character) > Drama > History and criticism.
Faust > (Legendary character) > Songs and music > History and criticism.
Music > 19th century > History and criticism.
Music > 20th century > History and criticism.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Charles McKnight and Lorna Firzsimmons
  • 1. Selected settings from "Auerbachs Keller" / Alberto Rizzuti
  • 2. Musical remembering in Schubert's Faust settings / Marjorie Hirsch
  • 3. Berlioz, Faust, and the gothic / Julian Rushton
  • 4. Schumann's struggle with Goethe's Faust / Laura Tunbridge
  • 5. Ideas of redemption and the total artwork in Wagner's encounters with Faust / Thomas S. Grey
  • 6. Liszt's Faust complexes / Jonathan Kregor
  • 7. Gounodian Fausts by Pablo de Sarasate, Joan Baptista Pujol, and Felip Pedrell i Sabaté / Rolf Bäcker
  • 8. Mahler's eighth and the Faust symphonic tradition / James L. Zychowicz
  • 9. Hanns Eisler and Faust in the German Democratic Republic / Joy H. Calico
  • 10. The paradoxical Faust cantatas of Adrian Leverkühn and Alfred Schnittke / Charles McKnight
  • 11. Louis Spohr's tragic Faust / Clive McClelland
  • 12. The genesis, transformations, sources, and style of Gounod's Faust / Vincent Giroud
  • 13. Mefistofele triumphant : from the ideal to the real / Michele Girardi
  • 14. Extending the reach of Ferruccio Busoni's Doktor Faust / Marc-André Roberge
  • 15. The Faustian and Mephistophelean worlds in Stravinsky's The rake's progress / Maureen A. Carr
  • 16. Havergal Brian's gothic opera Faust / Jürgen Schaarwächter
  • 17. The serial concept in Pousseur's Votre Faust / André Brégégère
  • 18. Reflections of the contemporary schizophrenia in Josef Berg's two versions of Johanes doktor Faust / Martin Flašar
  • 19. History and Faust in Doctor Atomic / Rebecca Cypess
  • 20. Pascal Dusapin's new lyrical style in Faustus, the last night / Jacques Amblard
  • 21. Faust goes dancing / Kristin Rygg
  • 22. Heinrich Heine's Faust ballet scenario, 1846-1948 / David Conway
  • 23. The American musical and the Faustian bargain / Raymond Knapp
  • 24. Faust rocks the stage (not) / Elizabeth L. Wollman
  • 25. Helen Gifford's Marlovian Regarding Faustus / Mark Carroll.