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After Mahler: Britten, Weill, Henze and Romantic Redemption

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After Mahler: Britten, Weill, Henze and Romantic Redemption - Downes, Stephen
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The music of Gustav Mahler repeatedly engages with Romantic notions of redemption. This is expressed in a range of gestures and procedures, shifting between affirmative fulfilment and pessimistic negation. In this groundbreaking study, Stephen Downes explores the relationship of this aspect of Mahler's music to the output of Benjamin Britten, Kurt Weill and Hans Werner Henze. Their initial admiration was notably dissonant with the prevailing Zeitgeist - Britten in 1930s England, Weill in 1920s Germany and Henze in 1950s ...

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After Mahler: Britten, Weill, Henze and Romantic Redemption 2013, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9781107008717

Hardcover