The Oxford Handbook of Faust in Music

by Fitzsimmons, Lorna; McKnight, Charles

• ISBN13: 9780199935185
• ISBN10: 0199935181
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2019-08-07
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Since its emergence in sixteenth-century Germany, the magician Faust's quest has become one of the most profound themes in Western history. Though variants are found across all media, few adaptations have met with greater acclaim than in music. Bringing together more than two dozen authors in a foundational volume, The Oxford Handbook of Faust in Music testifies to the spectacular impact the Faust theme has exerted over the centuries. The Handbook's three-part organization enables readers to follow the evolution of Faust in music across time and stylistic periods. Part I explores symphonic, choral, chamber, and solo Faust works by composers from Beethoven to Schnittke. Part II discusses the range of Faustian operas, and Part III examines Faust's presence in ballet and musical theater. Illustrating the interdisciplinary relationships between music and literature and the fascinating tapestry of intertextual relationships among the works of Faustian music themselves, the volume suggests that rather than merely retelling the story of Faust, these musical compositions contribute significant insights on the tale and its unrivalled cultural impact.

Author Biography

Lorna Fitzsimmons is Professor of Humanities at California State University, Dominguez Hills, in Los Angeles. She has taught an interdisciplinary course on Faustian literature, music, and visual culture for over a decade. She is also the editor of Lives of Faust. The Faust Theme in Literature and Music. A Reader; International Faust Studies: Adaptation, Reception, Translation; Goethe's Faust and Cultural Memory: Comparatist Interfaces; and Faust Adaptations from Marlowe to Aboudoma and Markland.

Table of Contents

CONTENTS

List of Figures
List of Musical Examples
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments

Introduction
CHARLES MCKNIGHT AND LORNA FITZSIMMONS


PART I SYMPHONIC, CHORAL, CHAMBER, AND SOLO FAUST WORKS


1. Selected Settings from "Auerbachs Keller"
ALBERTO RIZZUTI

2. Musical Remembering in Schubert's Faust Settings
MARJORIE HIRSCH

3. Intertextuality in the Faust Compositions of Fanny Hensel and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
CORNELIA BARTSCH

4. Berlioz, Faust, and the Gothick
JULIAN RUSHTON

5. Schumann's Struggle with Goethe's Faust
LAURA TUNBRIDGE

6. Ideas of Redemption and the Total Art-Work in Wagner's Encounters with Faust
THOMAS S. GREY

7. Liszt's Faust Complexes
JONATHAN KREGOR

8. Gounodian Fausts by Pablo de Sarasate, Joan Baptista Pujol, and Felip
Pedrell i Sabaté
ROLF BÄCKER

9. Mahler's Eighth and the Faust Symphonic Tradition
JAMES L. ZYCHOWICZ

10. Hanns Eisler and Faust in the SBZ/GDR
JOY H. CALICO

11. The Paradoxical Faust Cantatas of Adrian Leverkühn and Alfred Schnittke
CHARLES MCKNIGHT





PART II FAUST IN OPERA


12. Louis Spohr's Tragic Faust
CLIVE MCCLELLAND

13. The Genesis, Transformations, Sources, and Style of Gounod's Faust
VINCENT GIROUD

14. Mefistofele Triumphant
MICHELE GIRARDI

15. Extending the Reach of Ferruccio Busoni's Doktor Faust
MARC-ANDRÉ ROBERGE

16. The Faustian and Mephistophelean Worlds in Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress
MAUREEN A. CARR

17. Havergal Brian's Operatic Tour de Force Faust
JÜRGEN SCHAARWÄCHTER


18. Reflections of the Contemporary Schizophrenia in Josef Berg's Two Versions
of Johanes doktor Faust
MARTIN FLASAR

19. The Serial Concept in Pousseur's Votre Faust
ANDRÉ BRÉGÉGÈRE

20. History and Faust in Doctor Atomic
REBECCA CYPESS

21. Pascal Dusapin's New Lyrical Style in Faustus, the Last Night
JACQUES AMBLARD






PART III FAUST IN BALLET AND MUSICAL THEATER



22. Faust Goes Dancing
KRISTIN RYGG

23. Heinrich Heine's Faust Ballet Scenario, 1846-1948
DAVID CONWAY

24. The American Musical and the Faustian Bargain
RAYMOND KNAPP

25. Faust Rocks the Stage (Not)
ELIZABETH L. WOLLMAN

26. Helen Gifford's Marlovian Regarding Faustus
MARK CARROLL


Index