商品簡介
Despite its enormous popularity throughout the 19th century, Weber’s swan song, Oberon, has remained separate from the mainstream thrust of our modern understanding of German Romanic opera. In Carl Maria von Weber: Oberon and the Cosmopolitanism in the Early German Romantic, music historian and theorist Joseph E. Morgan reassesses Weber’s work and aesthetics not just for their influence but also as an expression of the aesthetics and cosmopolitanism that underlay the early romantic and nationalist movement in Germany. In a discussion with analyses that features nearly 100 musical examples, Morgan tracks the development of Weber’s musical style across his career. The investigation culminates with Weber’s last and long-misunderstood work, explaining its thematic and harmonic organization, its stylistic idiosyncrasies and the tenuous place that it holds on the margins of the operatic canon. The discussion is enhanced and corroborated by frequent attention to correlating developments in other arts from the period, including painting, poetry and literature.
作者簡介
Joseph E. Morgan currently serves as visiting faculty in music at the New England Conservatory in Boston, Massachusetts. His research focuses on the dramatic music, theory and aesthetics of Germany in the early 19th century and he has presented and published articles on E. T. A. Hoffmann, Robert Schumann, Richard Wagner, Giacomo Meyerbeer, and Carl Maria von Weber.
