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Extending the Reach of Ferruccio Busoni’s Doktor Faust

The Oxford Handbook of Faust in Music, 2019
This chapter documents the history and impact of the opera Doktor Faust (Doctor Faust), left incomplete by the Italian composer Ferruccio Busoni at his death in 1924, by surveying the completion proposed for the first performance (Dresden, 1925) by ...
M. Roberge
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Faust Rocks the Stage (Not)

The Oxford Handbook of Faust in Music, 2019
This chapter considers commercial rock musicals with Faustian themes that have been staged or workshopped in New York City between the mid-1960s and mid-1990s.
Elizabeth Wollman
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Heinrich Heine’s Faust Ballet Scenario, 1846–1948

The Oxford Handbook of Faust in Music, 2019
Heinrich Heine’s 1846–47 scenario for a Faust ballet, Der Doktor Faust: ein Tanzpoem (Doctor Faust: A Ballet Poem), languished for eighty years before finding a musical setting by František Škvor and a production in Prague in 1926 that was true to its ...
D. Conway
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Liszt’s Faust Complexes

The Oxford Handbook of Faust in Music, 2019
This chapter considers Franz Liszt’s engagement with Faustian themes during three periods of his career: an initial stage during his concert years in which he ambivalently cultivated a Mephistophelean image through arresting performances and ...
Jonathan Kregor
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Musical Remembering in Schubert’s Faust Settings

The Oxford Handbook of Faust in Music, 2019
This chapter discusses the musical representation of memory in three of Franz Schubert’s Faust settings. “Gretchen am Spinnrade” (“Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel”) (D.
M. Hirsch
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Faust Goes Dancing

The Oxford Handbook of Faust in Music, 2019
This chapter discusses four ballets, all based on Goethe’s Faust, created over the period 1832–48 by four leading choreographers: August Bournonville in Copenhagen, André-Jean-Jacques Deshayes in London, Salvatore Taglioni in Naples, and Jules Perrot in ...
Kristin Rygg
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The Serial Concept in Pousseur’s Votre Faust

The Oxford Handbook of Faust in Music, 2019
The product of an eight-year collaboration between Belgian composer Henri Pousseur and French writer Michel Butor, Votre Faust (Your Faust) (1969) engages in a critical dialogue with the operatic genre and the Western tradition through a multifaceted ...
André Brégégère
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Louis Spohr’s Tragic Faust

The Oxford Handbook of Faust in Music, 2019
Louis Spohr’s Faust is the first operatic setting of the legend by a major composer. Unlike most of the Faust settings of later years, Spohr’s used a libretto based on Faustian characters and ideas, but not the main events associated with the legend.
C. McClelland
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Reflections of the Contemporary Schizophrenia in Josef Berg’s Two Versions of Johanes doktor Faust

The Oxford Handbook of Faust in Music, 2019
Czech music has a lengthy tradition of Faustian settings extending back to the nineteenth century. Two important Faust compositions from the mid-twentieth century were created by the composer, writer, and poet Josef Berg.
Martin Flašar
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The Genesis, Transformations, Sources, and Style of Gounod’s Faust

The Oxford Handbook of Faust in Music, 2019
Beginning with Charles Gounod’s lifelong interest in Goethe’s Faust, this chapter explores the genesis of the composer’s collaboration with his librettists Jules Barbier and Michel Carré and the circumstances leading to the opera Faust’s 1859 premiere at
V. Giroud
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