Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction: Music and Heritage in the German Democratic Republic
- 1 Provincialism, Modernity, and the Classical Heritage: The Administrative Structure of the GDR and the Situation of Music Production
- 2 Classicism as Anti-Fascist Heritage: Realism and Myth in Ernst Hermann Meyer’s Mansfelder Oratorium (1950)
- 3 Positioning Georg Knepler in the Musicological Discourse of the GDR
- 4 Ehrt euren Deutschen Meister: Reproducing Wagner in the GDR
- 5 The Embodiment of Collective Memory in Neue Odyssee
- 6 Marxism and Feminism in Ruth Berghaus’s Staging of Don Giovanni
- 7 Beyond the Gewandhaus: Mahler and the GDR
- 8 Hanns Eisler’s Funeral and Cultures of Commemoration in the GDR
- 9 Exile—Remigration—Socialist Realism: The Role of Classical Music in the Works of Paul Dessau
- 10 “What a Satisfying Task for a Composer!”: Paul Dessau’s Music for The German Story (. . .Du und mancher Kamerad)
- 11 Friedrich Schenker and the Third Way
- 12 A Prism of East German Music: Lothar Voigtländer
- Notes on the Contributors
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 May 2021
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction: Music and Heritage in the German Democratic Republic
- 1 Provincialism, Modernity, and the Classical Heritage: The Administrative Structure of the GDR and the Situation of Music Production
- 2 Classicism as Anti-Fascist Heritage: Realism and Myth in Ernst Hermann Meyer’s Mansfelder Oratorium (1950)
- 3 Positioning Georg Knepler in the Musicological Discourse of the GDR
- 4 Ehrt euren Deutschen Meister: Reproducing Wagner in the GDR
- 5 The Embodiment of Collective Memory in Neue Odyssee
- 6 Marxism and Feminism in Ruth Berghaus’s Staging of Don Giovanni
- 7 Beyond the Gewandhaus: Mahler and the GDR
- 8 Hanns Eisler’s Funeral and Cultures of Commemoration in the GDR
- 9 Exile—Remigration—Socialist Realism: The Role of Classical Music in the Works of Paul Dessau
- 10 “What a Satisfying Task for a Composer!”: Paul Dessau’s Music for The German Story (. . .Du und mancher Kamerad)
- 11 Friedrich Schenker and the Third Way
- 12 A Prism of East German Music: Lothar Voigtländer
- Notes on the Contributors
- Index
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- Classical Music in the German Democratic RepublicProduction and Reception, pp. i - ivPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2015