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Titles on Musicology

Goethe: Musical Poet, Musical Catalyst

 

Proceedings of the Conference hosted by the Department of Music, National University of Ireland, Maynooth 26 & 27 March 2004

edited by Lorraine Byrne
with a preface by Susan Youens
 

30 Euro
ISBN 1-904505-10-4

             

 

 

Contents 
Message from Dr Gottfried Haas, Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany  
Micheal O’Siadhail, ‘Hopscotch’ and ‘Caprice’   
Preface:  Susan Youens  

 
A: Goethe’s Musical Aesthetics                                                                                           
1 | Goethe’s Presence  in the Vienna Music Scene of
his Era:  Otto Biba 
2 | Goethe and Zelter: An Exchange of Musical  Letters:  
 Lorraine Byrne                                                                                                                            

B: Goethe and Beethoven

3 | Göthe and Beethowen: Men of Genius between Distance and Affinity: Claus Canisius
4 | ‘Ich denke dein’: Beethoven’s Retelling of Goethe’s Poetry: Amanda Glauert
5 | Fidelio and Faust in the German ‘Wende’ of 1989/90: Moray McGowan

 

C: Goethe as Musical Catalyst

 

 6 | Goethe and the Czechs: Jan Smaczny
 7 | Bettina von Arnim, Goethe and the Boundaries of Creativity: Briony Williams 
8 | Blumengruß und Blumenglöckchen: Goethe’s Influence on Anton Webern: Gareth Cox  

 

 

D: Musical and Philosophical Reflections
of Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre

 

9 | ‘Thealogy’: Gods, Goddesses, and Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre: Nicholas Boyle 
10 | Schumann’s Requiem für Mignon and the Concept of Music as Literature: Julian Horton
11 | Mignon’s Exequies and Aesthetic Reflections of the Liturgy in Music:
Adolf Nowak
12 | Mignon und der Harfner:
Seóirse Bodley

 

Appendix 1 | Conference Programme
Appendix 2 | Goethe and the Guitar
Index                                                                                                                                                                             

 



 

 

 





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