The Don Giovanni Moment : : Essays on the Legacy of an Opera / / ed. by Daniel Herwitz, Lydia Goehr.

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• MitwirkendeR: Bacht, Nikolaus,; Eldridge, Richard,; Gasparov, Boris,; Goehr, Lydia,; Grey, Thomas S.,; Heller, Agnes,; Herwitz, Daniel,; Hoeckner, Berthold,; Kitcher, Philip,; Osterkamp, Ernst,; Rowland, Ingrid,; Schacht, Richard,; Soucek, Brian,; Vaget, Hans Rudolf,; Williams, Bernard,
• HerausgeberIn: Goehr, Lydia,; Herwitz, Daniel,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2006]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Series: Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 p.) :; 14 illus

Mozart's Don Giovanni is an operatic masterpiece full of iconic and mythical tensions that still resonate today. The work redefines the terms of power, seduction, and morality, and the resulting conflict between the aesthetic and the ethical is deeply rooted in the Enlightenment and romanticism...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Contributors
• Introduction
• 1. Don Giovanni: "And what communion hath light with darkness?"
• 2. Don Juan and Faust: On the Interaction Between Two Literary Myths
• 3. "Hidden Secrets of the Self ": E. T. A. Hoffmann's Reading of Don Giovanni
• 4. Don Juan in Nicholas's Russia (Pushkin's The Stone Guest)
• 5. Mörike's Mozart and the Scent of a Woman
• 6. The Gothic Libertine: The Shadow of Don Giovanni in Romantic Music and Culture
• 7. Don Juan as an Idea
• Kierkegaard Writes His Opera
• 9. The Curse and Promise of the Absolutely Musical: Tristan und Isolde and Don Giovanni
• 10. Authority and Judgment in Mozart's Don Giovanni and Wagner's Ring
• 11. Mozart's Don Giovanni in Shaw's Comedy
• 12. Giovanni auf Naxos
• 13. Homage to Adorno's "Homage to Zerlina"
• 14. Adorno and the Don