MUS M 402 1st Edition Lecture 19 Outline of Last Lecture I The Creation of Russianness during the Nineteenth Century II Elements of Russian Nationalism in Music Outline of Current Lecture I German Composers React to Beethoven II Richard Wagner III Wagner s Music Interrelated Stylistic Concepts Current Lecture I German Composers React to Beethoven a After Beethoven s death composers dealt with a fair amount of anxiety asking themselves What comes next in music b Both Brahms and Wagner were well known German composers who both claimed to know how to continue the generation of great German composers after Beethoven i Both Brahms and Wagner felt that they were the next great Beethoven however they composed in vastly different styles II Richard Wagner a Richard Wagner lived from 1813 1883 b He was an opera director and conductor in the 1830s c He was a freelancer in Paris in 1839 1840 d Following his time in Paris Wagner worked as Kapellmeister in Dresden in 1843 where he gained an extensive reputation as a loudmouth radical between the years of 1842 1849 i When his radical political views got him into trouble in Germany he was sent into exile where he worked as a composer theorist 1 In exile Wagner wrote three essays that discussed his new concepts of music as begins to re think everything a Das Judentum in der Musik 1850 b Das Kunstwerk der Zukunft 1850 c Oper und Drama 1851 ii Wagner s Vindication involved amnesty extensive patronage from Ludwig II in 1864 the building of Bayreuth Wagner s dream ideal opera house and the development of various types of Wagnerian cults that develops amongst Wagner s fans followers III Wagner s Music Interrelated Stylistic Concepts a Infinite melody b Erosion of hypermetric stability c Constantly mobile chromatic harmonies d Few detachable numbers constant flow of musical discourse e Role of orchestra f Leitmotivic transformation g Inner vs Outer Action
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