The Great Tradition and Its Legacy: The Evolution of Dramatic and Musical Theater in Austria and Central Europe

Published by Berghahn Books 2003

The Great Tradition and Its Legacy

The Evolution of Dramatic and Musical Theater in Austria and Central Europe

Edited by: Michael Cherlin , Halina Filipowicz and Richard L. Rudolph

Volume 4 in the series Austrian and Habsburg Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782381686

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About this book

Both dramatic and musical theater are part of the tradition that has made Austria - especially Vienna - and the old Habsburg lands synonymous with high culture in Central Europe. Many works, often controversial originally but now considered as classics, are still performed regularly in Vienna, Prague, Budapest, or Krakow. This volume not only offers an excellent overview of the theatrical history of the region, it is also an innovative, cross-disciplinary attempt to analyse the inner workings and dynamics of theater through a discussion of the interplay between society, the audience, and performing artists.

Author / Editor information

Michael Cherlin is Professor of Music Theory, University of Minnesota.

Halina Filipowicz is Professor of Slavic Literatures, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Richard L. Rudolph is Professor Emeritus, University of Minnesota.

Michael Cherlin is Professor of Music Theory, University of Minnesota.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface Richard L. Rudolph Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Notes on Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
DRAMATIC THEATER
Introduction: Rethinking Drama and Theater in Austria and Central Europe Halina Filipowicz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part One: The Enlightenment and the “New Beginning”
1. “By and By We Shall Have an Enlightened Populace”: Moral Optimism and the Fine Arts in Late-Eighteenth-Century Austria Ernst Wangermann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
2. Taming a Transgressive National Hero: Tadeusz Kos´ciuszko and Nineteenth-Century Polish Drama Halina Filipowicz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
3. Nestroy and His Naughty Children: A Plebeian Tradition in the Austrian Theater Carl Weber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	52
4. Pantomime, Dance, Sprachskepsis, and Physical Culture in German and Austrian Modernism Harold B. Segel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	62
5. Populism versus Elitism in Max Reinhardt’s Austrian Productions of the 1920s Michael Patterson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	72
Part Two: Post-Holocaust and Postmodern Theater
6. Elfriede Jelinek’s Nora Project; or, What Happens When Nora Meets the Capitalists Christine Kiebuzinska Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
7. George Tabori’s Return to the Danube, 1987–1999 Hans-Peter Bayerdörfer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
8. Thomas Bernhard’s Heldenplatz: Artists and Societies beyond the Scandal Alfred Pfabigan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	112
9. Pulling the Pants Off History: Politics and Postmodernism in Thomas Bernhard’s Eve of Retirement Jeanette R. Malkin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
MUSICAL THEATER
Introduction: Conflict and Crosscurrents in Viennese Music Michael Cherlin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
Part Three: The Emergence of the Classical Style
10. Vienna as a Center of Ballet Reform in the Late Eighteenth Century Sibylle Dahms Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
11. The Viennese Singspiel, Haydn, and Mozart Eva Badura-Skoda Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	160
12. Displaying (Out)Rage: The Dilemma of Constancy in Mozart’s Operas Gretchen A. Wheelock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
Part Four: Some Major Transformations of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
13. Karl Goldmark’s Operas during the Directorship of Gustav Mahler Peter Revers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
14. A Break in the Scenic Traditions of the Vienna Court Opera: Alfred Roller and the Vienna Secession Evan Baker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
15. Schoenberg’s Music for the Theater Michael Cherlin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	246
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 290
Keywords: History: 18th/19th Century; Performance Studies; Literary Studies

eBook

Published: October 1, 2003
ISBN: 9781782381686