"… the first singer, a born German" : notions of nationality as a field of conflict in operatic music of the 1770s

  • This article contributes to the European history of musical nationalism with regard to operatic debates in the eighteenth century. The investigation reveals that within operatic debates national categories were used for all levels of the multimedia genre of opera: music, text, composer, and actor. Moreover, the relationship between national character and national taste was a highly critical point: there was general agreement that only outstanding aesthetic abilities enable composers to go beyond their own particular national character. Only in this respect could aesthetic abilities stand above national taste, which was said to be shaped by national character.

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Author:Andrea HorzORCiDGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-710682
URL:https://brill.com/downloadpdf/book/9789004513150/BP000031.pdf
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004513150_022
ISBN:978-90-04-51315-0
ISBN:978-90-04-45012-7
ISSN:0927-4065
Parent Title (English):New perspectives on imagology / edited by Katharina Edtstadler, Sandra Folie and Gianna Zocco ; Studia Imagologica ; 30
Publisher:Brill
Place of publication:Leiden ; Boston
Document Type:Part of a Book
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2024/04/08
Year of first Publication:2022
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2024/04/08
Tag:Eighteenth century; Musical nationalism; National character; National taste; Operatic debates
GND Keyword:Oper; Diskurs; Nationalismus; Nationalcharakter; Musikalischer Geschmack; Geschichte 1770-1780; Gluck, Christoph Willibald; Rezeption
Page Number:21
First Page:403
Last Page:417
Dewey Decimal Classification:7 Künste und Unterhaltung / 79 Sport, Spiele, Unterhaltung / 792 Bühnenkunst
8 Literatur / 80 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft / 800 Literatur und Rhetorik
Sammlungen:CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
Sammlung Musik, Theater, Film / Literatur zur Musik
CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft / Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Berlin
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - CC BY-NC - Namensnennung - Nicht kommerziell 4.0 International