The Don Giovanni moment : essays on the legacy of an opera /
Goehr, Lydia.
Herwitz, Daniel Alan,1955-
New York : Columbia University Press,
c2006.
Includes bibliographical references.
Don Giovanni : "And what communion hath light with darkness?" / Ingrid Rowland -- Don Juan and Faust : on the interaction between two literary myths / Ernst Osterkamp -- "Hidden secrets of the self" : E.T.A. Hoffmann's reading of Don Giovanni / Richard Eldridge -- Don Juan in Nicholas's Russia (Pushkin's The stone guest) / Boris Gasparov -- Mörike's Mozart and the scent of a woman / Hans Rudolf Vaget -- The Gothic libertine : the shadow of Don Giovanni in German romantic music and culture / Thomas S. Grey -- Don Juan as an idea / Bernard Williams -- Kierkegaard writes his opera / Daniel Herwitz -- The curse and promise of the absolutely musical : Tristan and Isolde and Don Giovanni / Lydia Goehr -- Authority and judgment in Mozart's Don Giovanni and Wagner's Ring / Philip Kitcher and Richard Schacht -- Mozart's Don Giovanni in Shaw's comedy / Agnes Heller -- Giovanni auf Naxos / Brian Soucek -- Homage to Adorno's 'Homage to Zerlina' / Berthold Hoeckner -- Adorno and the Don / Nikolaus Bacht.
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791.
Don Juan (Legendary character) in literature.
Music and literature.
Opera.