Title: The Don Giovanni moment : essays on the legacy of an opera /
Authors: Goehr, Lydia; Herwitz, Daniel Alan, 1955-
Publisher: Columbia University Press,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus,; Juan, In literature.; Music and literature.; Opera.
Contents: 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' 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 romanticism / Thomas 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..