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020 $a9781580462525 (hardcover)
020 $a1580462529 (hardcover)
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050 00 $aML410.M5$bC66 2007
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100 1 $aCooper, John Michael.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no95026366
245 10 $aMendelssohn, Goethe, and the Walpurgis night :$bthe heathen muse in European culture, 1700-1850 /$cJohn Michael Cooper.
260 $aRochester, NY :$bUniversity of Rochester Press,$c2007.
300 $axvi, 284 pages :$billustrations, music ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aEastman studies in music,$x1071-9989
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [261]-274) and indexes.
505 00 $g1.$tThe cultural and religious prehistories --$g2.$tTolerance, translation, and acceptance : Goethe's and Mendelssohn's voices in European cultural discourse to ca. 1850 --$g3.$tReality and illusion, past and present : Goethe and the Walpurgisnacht --$g4.$tThe composition, revision, and publication of Mendelssohn's Die erste Walpurgisnacht --$g5.$tThe sources, structure, and narrative of Mendelssohn's Walpurgisnacht settings --$g6.$tAt the crossroads of identity : critical and artistic responses to Goethe's and Mendelssohn's Walpurgisnacht treatments --$g7.$tPerforming identity and alterity : Die erste Walpurgisnacht then and now --$gApp. A.$tOriginal texts of select lengthy documents originally written in languages other than English.
520 1 $a"Mendelssohn, Goethe, and the Walpurgis Night is a book about tolerance and acceptance in the face of cultural, political, and religious strife. Its point of departure is the Walpurgis Night. The Night, also known as Beltane or May Eve, was a legendary annual witches' Sabbath that allegedly centered on the Brocken, the highest peak of the Harz Mountains." "After exploring how a notoriously pagan celebration came to be named after the Christian missionary St. Walpurgis (ca. 710-79), John Michael Cooper discusses the Night's treatments in several closely interwoven works by Goethe and Mendelssohn. His book situates those works in their immediate personal and professional contexts, as well as among treatments by a wide array of other artists, philosophers, and political thinkers. These various artistic engagements collectively involved figures as diverse as Muhammad, Charlemagne, Voltaire, Lessing, Moses Mendelssohn, Percy Shelley, de Stael, Schleiermacher, Helne, Delacroix, and Berlioz." "As Cooper's inquiry reveals, Walpurgis Night was no lighthearted Halloween-like event for Goethe, Mendelssohn, and their contemporaries. Rather, it served as a potent artistic theme that engaged issues of immediate and enduring social import." "In an age of decisive political and religious conflict, Walpurgis Night became a heathen muse: a source of spiritual inspiration that was neither specifically Christian, nor Jewish, nor Muslim. And Mendelssohn's and Goethe's engagements with it offer new insights into its role in European cultural history, as well as into issues of political, religious, and social identity - and the relations between cultural groups - in today's world."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aMendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix,$d1809-1847.$tErste Walpurgisnacht.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80037775
600 10 $aGoethe, Johann Wolfgang von,$d1749-1832.$tFaust.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82089580
651 0 $aEurope$xReligious life and customs.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115009
650 0 $aOther (Philosophy)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002004207
830 0 $aEastman studies in music.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93090808
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip074/2006034692.html
852 00 $boff,mus$hML410.M5$iC66 2007
852 00 $buts$hML410.M5$iC66 2007