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Opera, the Nation, and the Ideology of Genre in Early Nineteenth-Century Germany

Burke, Kevin Robert
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1100551588

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2004, M.M., University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music : Music History.
Historians have struggled with defining German opera of the early-nineteenth century. Those who adopt “German Romantic opera” as a sole designator tend to focus on canonical works, purporting a teleological culmination with Wagner. These approaches, however, fail to account for concurrent explorations with German Grand opera and comic opera. This thesis investigates historiographic problems and proposes a contextual approach via national identity, exploring operas of Louis Spohr, Heinrich Marschner, and Albert Lortzing. Spohr’s attempt to remove foreign elements and integrate national ones in Jessonda resembles Aristotle’s view on how theater affects audiences through a catharsis of purgation and clarification. National writings often employ gendered language, suggesting that national identity relates to sexual identity. Marschner’s Hans Heiling presents several characters that react to nineteenth-century constructions of gender. Revolution created a more nationally conscious middle class. Lortzing’s Czar und Zimmermann shows mediation between comic opera and art music for this emerging class.
Hilary Poriss (Advisor)
114 p.
Music
Louis Spohr; Heinrich Marschner; Albert Lortzing; Jessonda; Hans Heiling; Czar und Zimmermann; German Opera; German Romantic Opera; Nineteenth-Century German Opera

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  • Burke, K. R. (2004). Opera, the Nation, and the Ideology of Genre in Early Nineteenth-Century Germany [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1100551588

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Burke, Kevin. Opera, the Nation, and the Ideology of Genre in Early Nineteenth-Century Germany. 2004. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1100551588.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Burke, Kevin. "Opera, the Nation, and the Ideology of Genre in Early Nineteenth-Century Germany." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1100551588

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