Music Into Fiction

Composers Writing, Compositions Imitated
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-57113-973-3
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, Band 177, 260 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 167 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 567 g

Reihe: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

Illuminates unexplored dimensions of the music-literature relationship and the sometimes unrecognized talents of certain famous writers and composers.

This book deals with three aspects that have been neglected in the burgeoning field of music and literature. The "First Movement" of the book considers writers from German Romanticism to the present who, like Robert Schumann, first saw themselves as writers before they turned to composition, or, like E. T. A. Hoffmann and Anthony Burgess, sought careers in music before becoming writers. It also considers the few operatic composers, such as Richard Wagner and Arnold Schoenberg, who wrote their own libretti. The "Second Movement" turns to literary works based specifically on musical compositions. This group includes, first and more generally, prose works whose author chose a specific musical form such as sonata or fugue as an organizational model. And second, it includes novels based structurally or thematically on specific compositions, such as Bach's Goldberg Variations. The "Finale" concludes with a unique case: efforts by modern composers to render musically the compositions described in detail by Thomas Mann in his novel Doktor Faustus. This book, which addresses itself to readers interested generally in music and literature and is written in a reader-friendly style, draws attention to unexplored dimensions of the music-literature relationship and to the sometimes unrecognized talents of certain writers and composers.

Theodore Ziolkowski is Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature, Princeton University.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ziolkowski, Theodore

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prelude: Introduction
Weber and Hoffmann
Berlioz and Schumann
Wagner
Transition: Nietzsche and the Post-Wagnerians
Burgess
Compositional Forms
Specific Compositions
Leverkühn's Compositions
Coda: Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ziolkowski, Theodore
Theodore Ziolkowski is Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature, Princeton University.