After Wagner: Histories of Modernist Music Drama from Parsifal to Nono

by Mark Berry

Offers histories of music drama beginning with Wagner's Parsifal and then looking at works by Arnold Schoenberg, Richard Strauss, Luigi Dallapiccola, Luigi Nono and Hans Werner Henze.

This book is both a telling of operatic histories 'after' Richard Wagner, and a philosophical reflection upon the writing of those histories. Historical musicology reckons with intellectual and cultural history, and vice versa. The 'after' of the title denotes...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843839687
• ISBN13: 9781843839682
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 325 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"