Richard Strauss in Context

Book Overview

Richard Strauss in Context offers a distinctive approach to the study of a composer in that it places the emphasis on contextualizing topics rather than on biography and artistic output. One might say that it inverts the relationship between composer and context. Rather than studies of Strauss's librettists that discuss the texts themselves and his musical settings, for instance, this book offers essays on the writers themselves: their biographical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108422004
• ISBN13: 9781108422000
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"