The Artist-Operas of Pfitzner, Krenek, and Hindemith
Subtitle: Politics and the Ideology of the Artist
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: June 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9780754605782
Subjects: Composers & musicians; Opera; POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Theory of art; 20th century; Genres & Styles - Opera; Biography / Autobiography; Music; Germany; Political aspects; Composers & Musicians - Classical Vocalists; Social aspects
First sentence: According to the nineteenth-century cliche, the creative artist is a mortal on a higher level of existence, ignored and unappreciated by the world around him, deeply feeling and suffering.