The politics of appropriation German romantic music and the ancient Greek legacy /

This text explores the intersection of music and Hellenism in 19th-century Germany. It shows how productions such as that of the Prussian court of Sophocles' Antigone with music by Felix Mendelssohn reflect an effort by the rulers who commissioned them to appropriate the legacy of Greece for th...

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Main Author: Geary, Jason,
Other Authors: Oxford Scholarship Online.
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Physical Description: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), music.
Series: New cultural history of music.
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