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245 10 a| Mendelssohn, Goethe, and the Walpurgis night :b| the heathen muse in European culture, 1700-1850 /c| John Michael Cooper.;

260 a| Rochester, NY :b| University of Rochester Press,c| 2007.;

300 a| xvi, 284 pages :b| illustrations, music ;c| 24 cm.;

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490 1 a| Eastman studies in music,x| 1071-9989;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-274) and indexes.;

505 0 a| The cultural and religious prehistories -- Tolerance, translation, and acceptance : Goethe's and Mendelssohn's voices in European cultural discourse to ca. 1850 -- Reality and illusion, past and present : Goethe and the Walpurgisnacht -- The composition, revision, and publication of Mendelssohn's Die erste Walpurgisnacht -- The sources, structure, and narrative of Mendelssohn's Walpurgisnacht settings -- At the crossroads of identity : critical and artistic responses to Goethe's and Mendelssohn's Walpurgisnacht treatments -- Performing identity and alterity : Die erste Walpurgisnacht then and now.;

520 a| Mendelssohn, Goethe, and the Walpurgis Night is a book about tolerance and acceptance in the face of cultural, political, and religious strife. Its point of departure is the Walpurgis Night. The Night, also known as Beltane or May Eve, was a legendary annual witches' Sabbath that allegedly centered on the Brocken, the highest peak of the Harz Mountains. After exploring how a notoriously pagan celebration came to be named after the Christian missionary St. Walpurgis (ca. 710-79), John Michael Cooper discusses the Night's treatments in several closely interwoven works by Goethe and Mendelssohn. His book situates those works in their immediate personal and professional contexts, as well as among treatments by a wide array of other artists, philosophers, and political thinkers. These various artistic engagements collectively involved figures as diverse as Muhammad, Charlemagne, Voltaire, Lessing, Moses Mendelssohn, Percy Shelley, de Stael, Schleiermacher, Helne, Delacroix, and Berlioz. As Cooper's inquiry reveals, Walpurgis Night was no lighthearted Halloween-like event for Goethe, Mendelssohn, and their contemporaries. Rather, it served as a potent artistic theme that engaged issues of immediate and enduring social import. In an age of decisive political and religious conflict, Walpurgis Night became a heathen muse: a source of spiritual inspiration that was neither specifically Christian, nor Jewish, nor Muslim. And Mendelssohn's and Goethe's engagements with it offer new insights into its role in European cultural history, as well as into issues of political, religious, and social identity and the relations between cultural groups in today's world.;

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600 10 a| Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von,d| 1749-1832.t| Faust.=| ^A495159;

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Mendelssohn, Goethe, and the Walpurgis night : the heathen muse in European culture, 1700-1850 / John Michael Cooper.

Author/creator	Cooper, John Michael
Format	Book
Publication Info	Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2007.
Description	xvi, 284 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm.
Subjects	Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix, 1809-1847. Erste Walpurgisnacht. Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832. Faust. Other (Philosophy) Europe--Religious life and customs.

Series	Eastman studies in music, 1071-9989 Eastman studies in music. ^A494093
Contents	The cultural and religious prehistories -- Tolerance, translation, and acceptance : Goethe's and Mendelssohn's voices in European cultural discourse to ca. 1850 -- Reality and illusion, past and present : Goethe and the Walpurgisnacht -- The composition, revision, and publication of Mendelssohn's Die erste Walpurgisnacht -- The sources, structure, and narrative of Mendelssohn's Walpurgisnacht settings -- At the crossroads of identity : critical and artistic responses to Goethe's and Mendelssohn's Walpurgisnacht treatments -- Performing identity and alterity : Die erste Walpurgisnacht then and now.
Abstract	Mendelssohn, Goethe, and the Walpurgis Night is a book about tolerance and acceptance in the face of cultural, political, and religious strife. Its point of departure is the Walpurgis Night. The Night, also known as Beltane or May Eve, was a legendary annual witches' Sabbath that allegedly centered on the Brocken, the highest peak of the Harz Mountains. After exploring how a notoriously pagan celebration came to be named after the Christian missionary St. Walpurgis (ca. 710-79), John Michael Cooper discusses the Night's treatments in several closely interwoven works by Goethe and Mendelssohn. His book situates those works in their immediate personal and professional contexts, as well as among treatments by a wide array of other artists, philosophers, and political thinkers. These various artistic engagements collectively involved figures as diverse as Muhammad, Charlemagne, Voltaire, Lessing, Moses Mendelssohn, Percy Shelley, de Stael, Schleiermacher, Helne, Delacroix, and Berlioz. As Cooper's inquiry reveals, Walpurgis Night was no lighthearted Halloween-like event for Goethe, Mendelssohn, and their contemporaries. Rather, it served as a potent artistic theme that engaged issues of immediate and enduring social import. In an age of decisive political and religious conflict, Walpurgis Night became a heathen muse: a source of spiritual inspiration that was neither specifically Christian, nor Jewish, nor Muslim. And Mendelssohn's and Goethe's engagements with it offer new insights into its role in European cultural history, as well as into issues of political, religious, and social identity and the relations between cultural groups in today's world.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-274) and indexes.
LCCN	2006034692
ISBN	9781580462525 (hardcover)
ISBN	1580462529 (hardcover)

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