Analyzing Wagner's Operas: Alfred Lorenz and German Nationalist Ideology

An examination of work by the German music theorist, Alfred Lorenz, to explain Wagner's operas and how they fit with German nationalist ideology.

The work of the Wagnerian theorist and analyst Alfred Lorenz (1869-1939) has had a profound influence upon both Wagnerian scholarship and music analysis in the twentieth century, and yet it has never been properly evaluated. Analyzing Wagner's Operas outlines the origins and development of the expressive aesthetic in writings by Wagner and others, as well as in early-twentieth-century theories of musical form, and it considers Lorenz's work and contributions in this light. The book also hopes to show, to the extent possible, where Lorenz's work acted as a sort of "musical metaphor" for German nationalist ideology during the Nazi era.

Author: Stephen McClatchie
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Published: 10/25/1998
Series: Eastman Studies in Music #10
Pages: 260
Weight: 1.24lbs
Size: 9.22h x 6.46w x 0.98d
ISBN: 9781580460231