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- Rounding Wagner’s Mountain
- Series page
- Rounding Wagner’s Mountain
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Guntramand the crisis of German musical metaphysics
- 2 Élan vital:Feuersnot,Salome, and radical individualism
- 3 The way to the social:ElektraandDer Rosenkavalier
- 4 Intermezzo:Ariadneand her transformations
- 5 The marriage operas:Die Frau ohne Schatten,Intermezzo, andDie ägyptische Helena
- 6 Composing without Hofmannsthal:ArabellaandDie schweigsame Frau
- 7 The politics of peace:FriedenstagandDaphne
- 8 Opera in time of war:Die Liebe der DanaeandCapriccio
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
2 - Élan vital:Feuersnot,Salome, and radical individualism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2014
- Rounding Wagner’s Mountain
- Series page
- Rounding Wagner’s Mountain
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Guntramand the crisis of German musical metaphysics
- 2 Élan vital:Feuersnot,Salome, and radical individualism
- 3 The way to the social:ElektraandDer Rosenkavalier
- 4 Intermezzo:Ariadneand her transformations
- 5 The marriage operas:Die Frau ohne Schatten,Intermezzo, andDie ägyptische Helena
- 6 Composing without Hofmannsthal:ArabellaandDie schweigsame Frau
- 7 The politics of peace:FriedenstagandDaphne
- 8 Opera in time of war:Die Liebe der DanaeandCapriccio
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Rounding Wagner's MountainRichard Strauss and Modern German Opera, pp. 39 - 84Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014