Nicholas Vazsonyi
Biographic Data
| ID | 8498408 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicholas Vazsonyi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicholas |
| FAMILY NAME | Vazsonyi |
| SIGNATURE | VAZSONYI N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Carolina |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Idea of Art Music in a Commercial World, 1800-1930
Art and money, culture and commerce, have long been seen as uncomfortable bedfellows. Indeed, the connections between them have tended to resist full investigation, particularly in the musical sphere. The Idea of Art Music in a Commercial World, 1800-1930 , is a collection of essays that present fresh insights into the ways in which art music, i.e., classical music, functioned beyond its newly established aesthetic purpose (art for art's sake) an…
Kunstwerk der Zukunft: Richard Wagner und Zurich (1849-1858). Ed. by Laurenz Lutteken and Eva Martina Hanke
During the last couple of years there has been a surge in publications devoted to the nexus of Wagner and Zurich in particular, and Switzerland in general: Chris Walton’s Richard Wagner’s Zurich: The Muse of Place (Rochester, NY, 2007) and Eva Martina Hanke’s Wagner in Zürich — Individuum und Lebenswelt (Kassel, 2007). Eva Rieger and Hiltrud Schroeder have just published Ein Platz für Götter: Richard Wagners Wanderungen in der Schweiz (Vienna, 20…
Richard Wagner's Zurich: The Muse of Place. By Chris Walton
Only gradually does the reader of Chris Walton's prodigiously researched book begin to comprehend the full meaning of its title. Dealing not only with the years in the 1850s, when Wagner lived and worked in Zurich, the book also chronicles the musical life of Zurich and its most significant musicians during that time and beyond. As such, sections of the book will no doubt also be of value to music historians whose focus is Switzerland as opposed …
Beethoven Instrumentalized: Richard Wagner's Self-Marketing and Media Image
Wagner's ‘theatricality’, his tendency to make a production of himself, has been explained as evidence of his megalomania and as an attempt at self-aggrandizement. In this article Wagner's extravagant behaviours and utterances are placed on a different discursive plane, as imaginative and highly successful forms of self-marketing. Beethoven, central to Wagner's iconoclastic historiography of music and legitimation of his aesthetic project, was al…
Schopfer und Zerstorer: Richard Wagner als Kunstler
As a musician and noted antiquarian, and despite his formal training as a musicologist, Ulrich Drüner approaches the works of Richard Wagner and the multiple dilemmas they pose differently from most scholars. His book is personal, but will nonetheless speak to many readers, both lay and academic. By his own admission, Drüner’s relationship with Wagner has swung between emotional extremes: at 19 he found a performance of Tristan und Isolde unendur…
Programming the Absolute: Nineteenth-Century German Music and the Hermeneutics of the Moment
List of Figures and Tables ix List of Examples xi Preface xv Introduction Musical Moments and the Moment of German Music 1 Chapter One Beethoven's Star 12 Chapter Two Schumann's Distance 51 Chapter Three Elsa's Scream 115 Chapter Four Liszt's Prayer 155 Chapter Five Schoenberg's Gaze 189 Chapter Six Echo's Eyes 224 Notes 266 Bibliography 317 Index 339
Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship: A Reader's Commentary
Searching for Common Ground: Diskurse zur deutschen Identitat 1750-1871
Lukacs Reads Goethe: From Aestheticism to Stalinism
Vazsonyi, Nicholas. Lukacs Reads Goethe: From Aestheticism to Stalinism. Columbia: Camden House, 1997. 158 pp. $49.95 hardcover. How do we make sense of Georg Lukacs? An aesthete and a committed Marxist, a lifelong admirer of humanism and an advocate of political terror-indeed, of indiscriminate murder-in service of revolution: is his career simply a study in contradiction? Or is it best understood, as historians have traditionally argued, in of …
Montesquieu, Friedrich Carl von Moser, and the "National Spirit Debate" in Germany, 1765-1767
Mythology as Metaphor: Romantic Irony, Critical Theory, and Wagner's Ring. Contributions to the Study of Music and Dance
Haydn and His World
Public?103The Symphony as Pindaric Ode131Representing the Aristocracy: The Operatic Haydn and Le pescatrici154Haydn as Orator: A Rhetorical Analysis of His Keyboard Sonata in D Major, Hob.XVI:42201The Demise of Philosophical Listening: Haydn in the Nineteenth Century255A Yearbook of Music in Vienna and Prague 1796ISpecial Friends, Protectors, and Connoisseurs in ViennaIIVirtuosos and Amateurs in ViennaIIIAmateur Concerts289Remarks on the Developm…
Beethoven and the Construction of Genius: Musical Politics in Vienna, 1792-1803
Changing Perceptions of Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus: Criticism, 1947-1992
Ever since its appearance in 1947, Thomas Mann's novel Doctor Faustus has generated heated reactions among critics. Whereas initial ideological differences stemming from the Cold War and the division of Germany have abated following the reunification of 1990, diverse opinions and controversies persist about Mann's daring treatment of the Faust theme. These include such topics as the political stance of the author and the historical dimensions of …
Faust the Theologian
Der Fall Goethe--ein deutscher Fall: Eine psychoanalytische Studie. Mit einem Vorwort von Leon Wurmser
Goethe's Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre: A Question of Talent
When, in the seventh chapter of the seventh book of Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, Jarno announces to the hero, Uberhaupt ddichte ich ... Sie entsagten kurz und gut dem Theater, zu dem Sie doch einmal kein Talent haben, the first-time reader is no less betroffen than Wilhelm (HA 7: 469).1 Whatever one thinks of the protagonist, such a sweeping comment can neither be anticipated nor, if fairness is intended, fully justified. Nevertheless, from Christ…
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Goethe's Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre: A Question of Talent
When, in the seventh chapter of the seventh book of Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, Jarno announces to the hero, Uberhaupt ddichte ich ... Sie entsagten kurz und gut dem Theater, zu dem Sie doch einmal kein Talent haben, the first-time reader is no less betroffen than Wilhelm (HA 7: 469).1 Whatever one thinks of the protagonist, such a sweeping comment can neither be anticipated nor, if fairness is intended, fully justified. Nevertheless, from Christ…
Der Fall Goethe--ein deutscher Fall: Eine psychoanalytische Studie. Mit einem Vorwort von Leon Wurmser
Faust the Theologian
Beethoven and the Construction of Genius: Musical Politics in Vienna, 1792-1803
Changing Perceptions of Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus: Criticism, 1947-1992
Ever since its appearance in 1947, Thomas Mann's novel Doctor Faustus has generated heated reactions among critics. Whereas initial ideological differences stemming from the Cold War and the division of Germany have abated following the reunification of 1990, diverse opinions and controversies persist about Mann's daring treatment of the Faust theme. These include such topics as the political stance of the author and the historical dimensions of …
Haydn and His World
Public?103The Symphony as Pindaric Ode131Representing the Aristocracy: The Operatic Haydn and Le pescatrici154Haydn as Orator: A Rhetorical Analysis of His Keyboard Sonata in D Major, Hob.XVI:42201The Demise of Philosophical Listening: Haydn in the Nineteenth Century255A Yearbook of Music in Vienna and Prague 1796ISpecial Friends, Protectors, and Connoisseurs in ViennaIIVirtuosos and Amateurs in ViennaIIIAmateur Concerts289Remarks on the Developm…
Lukacs Reads Goethe: From Aestheticism to Stalinism
Vazsonyi, Nicholas. Lukacs Reads Goethe: From Aestheticism to Stalinism. Columbia: Camden House, 1997. 158 pp. $49.95 hardcover. How do we make sense of Georg Lukacs? An aesthete and a committed Marxist, a lifelong admirer of humanism and an advocate of political terror-indeed, of indiscriminate murder-in service of revolution: is his career simply a study in contradiction? Or is it best understood, as historians have traditionally argued, in of …
Montesquieu, Friedrich Carl von Moser, and the "National Spirit Debate" in Germany, 1765-1767
Mythology as Metaphor: Romantic Irony, Critical Theory, and Wagner's Ring. Contributions to the Study of Music and Dance
Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship: A Reader's Commentary
Searching for Common Ground: Diskurse zur deutschen Identitat 1750-1871
Programming the Absolute: Nineteenth-Century German Music and the Hermeneutics of the Moment
List of Figures and Tables ix List of Examples xi Preface xv Introduction Musical Moments and the Moment of German Music 1 Chapter One Beethoven's Star 12 Chapter Two Schumann's Distance 51 Chapter Three Elsa's Scream 115 Chapter Four Liszt's Prayer 155 Chapter Five Schoenberg's Gaze 189 Chapter Six Echo's Eyes 224 Notes 266 Bibliography 317 Index 339
Schopfer und Zerstorer: Richard Wagner als Kunstler
As a musician and noted antiquarian, and despite his formal training as a musicologist, Ulrich Drüner approaches the works of Richard Wagner and the multiple dilemmas they pose differently from most scholars. His book is personal, but will nonetheless speak to many readers, both lay and academic. By his own admission, Drüner’s relationship with Wagner has swung between emotional extremes: at 19 he found a performance of Tristan und Isolde unendur…
Beethoven Instrumentalized: Richard Wagner's Self-Marketing and Media Image
Wagner's ‘theatricality’, his tendency to make a production of himself, has been explained as evidence of his megalomania and as an attempt at self-aggrandizement. In this article Wagner's extravagant behaviours and utterances are placed on a different discursive plane, as imaginative and highly successful forms of self-marketing. Beethoven, central to Wagner's iconoclastic historiography of music and legitimation of his aesthetic project, was al…
Richard Wagner's Zurich: The Muse of Place. By Chris Walton
Only gradually does the reader of Chris Walton's prodigiously researched book begin to comprehend the full meaning of its title. Dealing not only with the years in the 1850s, when Wagner lived and worked in Zurich, the book also chronicles the musical life of Zurich and its most significant musicians during that time and beyond. As such, sections of the book will no doubt also be of value to music historians whose focus is Switzerland as opposed …
Kunstwerk der Zukunft: Richard Wagner und Zurich (1849-1858). Ed. by Laurenz Lutteken and Eva Martina Hanke
During the last couple of years there has been a surge in publications devoted to the nexus of Wagner and Zurich in particular, and Switzerland in general: Chris Walton’s Richard Wagner’s Zurich: The Muse of Place (Rochester, NY, 2007) and Eva Martina Hanke’s Wagner in Zürich — Individuum und Lebenswelt (Kassel, 2007). Eva Rieger and Hiltrud Schroeder have just published Ein Platz für Götter: Richard Wagners Wanderungen in der Schweiz (Vienna, 20…
The Idea of Art Music in a Commercial World, 1800-1930
Art and money, culture and commerce, have long been seen as uncomfortable bedfellows. Indeed, the connections between them have tended to resist full investigation, particularly in the musical sphere. The Idea of Art Music in a Commercial World, 1800-1930 , is a collection of essays that present fresh insights into the ways in which art music, i.e., classical music, functioned beyond its newly established aesthetic purpose (art for art's sake) an…
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