The origins and roles of instrumental music in the operas of Richard Strauss / by Rowat, Malcolm

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Lies and epiphanies : composers and their inspiration from Wagner to Berg / by Walton, Chris, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Richard Wagner's dynastic dreams -- Gustav Mahler's resurrection and the apostolic succession -- Of forked tongues and angels : Alban Berg's violin concerto -- Wilhelm Furtwängler and the return of the muse -- Here comes the sunset : the late and the last works of Richard Strauss -- Postlude : the telephone call.…”
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Singing in the age of anxiety : lieder performances in New York and London between the World Wars / by Tunbridge, Laura, 1974-

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Weimar : from Enlightenment to the present / by Kater, Michael H., 1937-

Of poetry and song : approaches to the nineteenth-century lied /

Table of Contents: “…Seelig ; Test-music relations in Schumann's Eichendorff song Frühlingsfahrt / Jürgen Thym ; Hugo Wolf's ghazal settings from Das Schenkenbuch of Goethe's West-östlicher Divan ; Karl Weigl's Opus 1 in its nineteenth-century context : a historic literary-musical fusion of Goethe's Wanderers Nachtlied and Ein Gleiches ; Hans Adam : Goethe's parodistic creation myth : a parody parodied by Hugo Wolf and Richard Strauss / Harry E. Seelig -- Poetic and musical structure. …”
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Heights of reflection : mountains in the German imagination from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century /

Table of Contents: “…Sullivan -- Spectacular scenery and slippery descents: narrating the mountains of tropical Polynesia / Sabine Wilke / Fascinating voids: Alexander von Humboldt and the myth of chimborazo / Oliver Lubrich -- From eros to Thanatos: hiking and spelunking in Ludwig Tieck's Der Runenberg / Peter Arnds -- Geology, mountaineering, and self-formation in Adalbert Stifter's der Nachsommer / Sean Ireton -- "An apparition from Another World": the mountains of the moon and Kilimanjaro from the perspective of nineteenth-century Germany / Christof Hamann -- Leaving the summit behind: tracking biographical and philosophical pathways in Richard Strauss's Eine Alpensinfonie / Peter Ḧöyng -- Elevation and insight: Thomas Mann's der Zauberberg -- Johannes Türk -- "Essence of the Alpine world is struggle": strategies of gesundung in Arnold Fanck's early mountain films -- Wilfried Wilms -- "Mountain of destiny": the filmic legacy of Nanga Parbat / Harald Höbusch -- Spatial orientation and embodied transcendence in Werner Herzog's mountain climbing films / Roger Cook -- W. …”
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Weimar : from Enlightenment to the present / by Kater, Michael H., 1937-

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The shadow of the empress : fairy-tale opera and the end of the Habsburg monarchy / by Wolff, Larry

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Eva Palmer Sikelianos : a life in ruins / by Leontis, Artemis

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Judenrollen : Darstellungsformen im europäischen Theater von der Restauration bis zur Zwischenkriegszeit /

Table of Contents: “…: jüdische Opernkarikaturen in Richard Strauss' Salome und Ferruccio Busonis Die Brautwahl / Frank Halbach -- "Wer kommt heut' in jedem Theaterstück vor? …”
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